In many countries with high populations in relation to land area, such as many European countries, the cost of installing telecommunications per head of population is far less than a country like Australia which has only 24 million people covering a huge land area. The concentration of people is mainly around the coast, but Continue reading…
CommsDay, Australia’s telecommunications daily journal and international renowned leader in P3 mobile benchmarking communications testing, has just released in its 2016 edition the results of the P3 CommsDay Mobile Benchmark. This is a mobile network test that is conducted annually in Australia and globally. The winning prize for this year by a small margin Continue reading…
60 second intro What is ‘data price deflation’ ? One way of describing a consistent, general decrease in the cost of data is ‘data price deflation’. The price of data falls regularly, substantially and always in the favour of users in Australian Prepaid and SIM only plans that are available. One way of describing Continue reading…
Good things always seem to come to an end as new technology and ideas are developed. Phone communications are no exception. Telstra has recently announced that its 2G network is going to disappear before the end of this year. That means that 2G enabled phone, or at least older phones incapable of receiving 3G Continue reading…
Vodafone’s CEO, Anaki Berroeta, used the occasion of the Australian telecommunication industry’s principal annual meeting, the Charles Todd Oration in Sydney, last week to address what Vodafone saw were the most important issues facing the industry. Berroeta said that these were domestic roaming, the Universal Service Obligation (USO) and spectrum allocation. This wasn’t the Continue reading…