A $187 million five-year deal between Telstra and the Queensland Government will see state school students have 200x faster internet speeds—from 25Kbps per student to 5Mbps by 2026.

Nokia and Rakuten Mobile have demonstrated the first live 1TB/s per channel transmission over Rakuten Mobile’s commercial dense wavelength division multiplexer (DWDM) network, recording a speed increase of 500% on Rakuten Mobile’s existing network running at 200GB/s.

NBN encourages Queensland and New South Wales customers who have been affected by the recent floods to sign up and leverage the company’s flood relief funding.

Labor responds to the recent Coalition Government spending spree on regional communications by promising more than $600 million of funds to improve connectivity for roads, regional communities and farms.

A non-profit known as the Centre for Countering Digital Hate has issued a report examining the private direct messages sent to five well-known women on Instagram and says it found a lot of objectionable material.

5G mobile subscriptions globally are expected to reach 4.38 billion by 2027, according to data obtained by Stockapps with Northeast Asia likely to have the highest subscriptions at one billion and Central and Eastern Europe likely to have the least subscriptions at 230 million.

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David M Williams, today's newsletter editor, iTWire



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