Optus says completion of work on a new mobile site in Maddingley in Victoria will provide improved coverage for mobile users on the State’s rail network.

NNNCo, the Australian company building a national narrowband network in Australia for IoT, has inked a contract with the City of Gold Coast to build and operate a commercial-grade Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) using the globally-adopted open standard LoRaWAN technology.

The New Zealand Commerce Commission, the country's business watchdog, has warned Australian MVNO Amaysim Operations, which trades as Buy Mobile, over unsubstantiated claims about discounts on the prices of some mobile phones.

And Amaysim doesn't yet offer an unlimited data plan, but the company has issued some tips to help customers not use up their data allowance before the end of their 28 day cycle. Useful tips that most mobile broadband users wouldn’t know, such as wherever possible use Wi-Fi! Thanks Amaysim.

Samsung's Galaxy Note9 has ended its pre-sales period and is now on sale at retail at last, with the Korean powerhouse proudly boasting of breaking all previous Samsung Note records for sales in the same time period.

American semiconductor equipment manufacturer Revasum has decided to seek a listing on the Australian Securities Exchange after it conducted a successful pre-IPO capital raising.

Drivers using four car parks in the city of Winchester in the US state of Virginia got a nasty surprise last week when they were suddenly issued parking tickets for US$4000 by the automated ticketing system.

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