The company rolling out Australia's national broadband network will waive charges for up to 40% additional use of CVC by retail service providers from 23 March onwards due to the additional load on the network, after many Australians started working from home this week after the coronavirus started spreading in the country.

Telecommunications consumer group ACCAN has called on Australia’s telecommunications networks to ensure that no Australian is left offline during the COVID-19 pandemic, while welcoming the Federal Government's expansion of telehealth services during the pandemic.

Ericsson and Nokia have been selected by Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom to provide the 5G platform to support its future 5G network, with the deployment of a non-standalone (NSA) New Radio (NR) network on mid and high-frequency bands.

A partnership between Nokia and China Mobile/CMCC Guangxi is set to deliver a landslide monitoring and early warning system for Chinese highways operations management company, Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment Group.

The spread of the coronavirus around the world will inevitably have a significant impact on the global economy and on tech spending in China for 2020, with one analyst firm forecasting a drop of 2% for the country’s tech spending for the year.

There’s a data literacy gap in Australia and businesses’ failure to put employees at heart of data strategy is costing the country $13.8 billion in lost productivity, according to a new report.

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