Singtel Optus has been affected by a national outage since 4am on Wednesday, with its 10.2 million customers unable to make mobile calls or use NBN services.



By 2028, smart traffic management spending will jump by 75% from US$10.6 billion in 2023, driven by increasing government funding for smart cities’ initiatives with transportation being at the centre of urban transformation projects, according to market research firm Juniper Research.

US-based telco vendor Aira Technologies claimed it has developed RanGPT, a capability that allows mobile network operators (MNOs) to leverage conversational AI to query and control RAN.

Equinix subsidiary and West Africa connectivity and data centre solutions provider MainOne has launched its expanded open access, carrier neutral, Uptime Tier III standards data centre AB1.2 in Vitib, Grand Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire.

AI-driven networks provider Juniper Networks has announced that its wireless access, wired access, NAC, indoor location services and SD-WAN solutions, all driven by MistAI, will have a cloud instance that is optimised for businesses that prefer a cloud instance in Australia.

Monash University researchers have been awarded a grant of $608,385 from the Australian Research Council to explore how policy design can ensure robots operate safely in public space and protect public interests.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire