Singtel Optus has become the first to offer access to a 5G mobile service to its wholesale partners, with the telco announcing on Monday that all mobile virtual network operators who resold its offering could enable and buy its 5G services.



5G phones are finally everywhere, with Apple launching its models later this week, and with 41% of Aussies now living, working or passing through 5G activated areas as Telstra activates its 2000th 5G site, and with more than 60 cities and towns nationwide where 5G rollouts continue - the age of 5G is truly upon us at last!

Search company Google has reiterated its objection to the proposed Australian mandatory news media code, repeating that it would put on hold any plans to implement its so-called news showcase in Australia until the matter of the code is resolved.

5G-enabled industries have the potential to deliver US$8 trillion in value to the global economy by 2030, according to new research from Nokia and Nokia Bell Labs.

New Zealand's biggest telecommunications service provider Spark has signed a deal with Australia's oldest LoRaWAN network operator, The National Narrowband Network Co, on IoT network sharing.

A senior official at Oracle Corporation, which has been involved in a court case with Google over the last decade, has described the search giant as a company that "has mastered the art of winning by kicking the can down the road".

Unions NSW, the peak body for unions in the state, has warned that the lack of a requirement that the State Government inform workers and residents they have suffered a data breach would result in them being unaware that their personal data has been stolen.

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