Yet another new Gigabit broadband provider is set to unveil a plan. Tasmanian ISP Launtel will launch a new service from 29 May based on the new NBN 1000/50 connection that the NBN Co is launching that day.

New Zealand cable operator Hawaiki Submarine Cable has entered into a multi-million-dollar deal with two other firms to increase the capacity linking Pacific territories and nations to Hawaii and the US mainland.

US Federal Government authorities seized a 226-tonne electricity transformer made by Chinese company Jiangsu Huapeng Transformer Company at Houston port last summer and took it to Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for unspecified reasons, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The British Government appears to have changed its mind again on deploying equipment from Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies, if a new report is to be believed.

Software developers are finding their productivity and wellbeing has been hit as a result of COVID-19, according to a new worldwide study led by the University of Adelaide’s School of Computer Science in collaboration with Dalhousie University in Canada.

Australian-listed internet service provider Spirit Telecom has launched its NBN Enterprise Ethernet (NBN EE) range to resellers and direct customers via its proprietary Spirit X digital sales platform.

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