A British report into Huawei's operations in the UK has found "concerning issues" in the company's approach to software development, significantly increasing risk to operators and needing ongoing management and mitigation.

Machine identity protection provider Venafi has found that certificate-related outages of critical business infrastructure were experienced during the last 12 months by nearly two-third of 550 companies it studied in five countries.

Optus says it has successfully secured funding to build 49 new mobile sites as part of Round 4 of the Federal Government's mobile black spot program.

Small South Melbourne-based NBN provider Tangerine Telecom is claiming to offer the cheapest 100/40 plan, offering a price of $69.90 for the first six months. The quantum of data was not specified.

Toby Gardner, chief executive and co-founder of fintech startup Finch, has been appointed by Victoria's Swinburne University as the first adjunct professor of Fintech in Australia.

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