When Dire Straits legend Mark Knopfler penned his song Money for Nothing, he never visualised that such a situation would actually happen in real life. But it has, in Australia in 2017 with Foxtel getting a $30 million gift from Australian taxpayers.

A veteran independent telecommunications commentator claims that government policy, not the NBN Co or retail service providers, is to blame for the fiasco that the national broadband network rollout has become.

Analysts and commercial real estate executives know that an Apple Store in a retail mall serves as would an apple a day in keeping the doctor away, with the doctor being the Dr Death of retail in the age of Amazon.

As a friend’s father's funeral drew closer, our reporter offered to record the funeral ceremony for the family as his friend had done for his father's funeral. But he had forgotten how Android’s FAT32 4GB file size limit would trip him up after recording 30 minutes of 1080P video.

California-based telco Avaya has entered into a plan support agreement following its filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy in January.

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