Telstra has lowered its earnings forecasts for the next financial year, FY18, following the NBN Co's announcement on Monday that it would be delaying HFC connections by anything from six to nine months.

The ACCC, has lambasted the telecommunications industry for continuing to advertise Internet plans using what it calls “unhelpful speed ranges”, and referencing off-peak speeds, or failing to provide consumers with any information about the speed of their services during busy hours.

And the ACCC is scrutinising proposed changes to Telstra’s NBN migration plan to assess whether they offer adequate protections for customers to maintain access to the services delivered by the National Broadband Network, as part of the industry and public consultation process.

A British group going by the name Google You Owe Us has launched a class action against Google for allegedly harvesting millions of iPhone users' personal information.

The personal and financial data of about 40,000 Americans has leaked on the Web via an unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, the security firm UpGuard reports.

Telecommunications and datacentre provider Macquarie Telecom is opening a new network operations centre (NOC) in Sydney in a move which the company says will “rescue’ at least 13 jobs which would have been moved offshore by a third-party provider.

More "evidence" has emerged this week, once again from a security company, this one based in Washington DC, that appears to point the finger at Russian involvement in the leaking of NSA exploits on the Web last year.

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