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Keg tracking with Konvoy – how the beer industry got buzzed on IoT

Australian outfit Konvoy Group started three years ago, in the summer of 2019, as a keg rental business, offering logistics support to craft brewers in its home country. It has, in the meantime, expanded its services portfolio, launched in international markets, and signed with...

NEC to support New South Wales Telco Authority’s 5G innovation lab

The lab will be used to explore how technologies like 5G and Open RAN can support public safety use cases The New South Wales (NSW) Telco Authority has selected NEC Corporation to build the initial phase of a 5G innovation lab, which the companies said...

Wi-Fi HaLow champ Morse Micro gets $140m, plus MegaChips gateway to East

Australia-based semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow for low-power mid-range IoT solutions, has raised $140 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Japan-based chip services company MegaChips, with participation also from existing investors, including Blackbird Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures, Clean...

Telstra and Ericsson supply private 5G for Australian agri-tech collective

Telstra has deployed a private 5G network for industrial tech organisation AgriFood Connect in Australia. It has worked with Ericsson on the deployment; it is the Swedish vendor’s first private-5G install in Australia. AgriFood Connect is a not-for-profit seeking to drive tech adoption in...

Landis+Gyr buys meter maker Luna, as part of busy spree in AMI and EV sectors

Landis+Gyr has acquired Turkey-based smart meter maker Luna Elektrik Elektronik for a “high double digit million dollar fee”, it said. It is the latest in a string of deals for the Swiss energy management company in 2021, in both the smart metering and electric...

Microsoft and Nokia bundle ‘space tech’ and 5G to spur Australian industry

Microsoft and Nokia have partnered with the South Australian Government to combine ‘space technology’ and terrestrial 5G in service of local industry, including as the basis for digital change in the Australian agriculture, mining, transport, logistics, and public sector industries. A press statement provided little...

5G-controlled fire-fighting tank tops list of Australia’s $20m 5G innovation spend

The Australian government has announced nearly AUS$20 million in funding for 5G-based enterprise innovation projects in the country, including for a 5G-controlled fire-fighting tank. The new investments were originally slated in its 2020/21 budget, as part of its Job Maker Digital Business Plan to...

Telstra, Optus, TPG under investigation for misleading customers over NBN speeds

Telstra, Optus and TPG have all said that the National Broadband Network Co has not provided 'timely and accurate speed information' Three Australian operators — Telstra, Optus and TPG — are under investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over allegations of making...

Samsung carrier business settles in Australia with 5G mmWave solution in tow

The initial offerings will include the Samsung Compact Macro 5G mmWave radio solution Samsung Electronics Australia is opening its telecommunications networks operations, Samsung Networks Business, in Australia, with initial offerings including the company’s Compact Macro 5G millimeter-wave (mmWave) radio solution, which is functional in both 26GHz...

Telstra preps NB-IoT sensor network to give Australian farmers a jump on the weather

Australian network operator Telstra is to deploy weather stations on its NB-IoT network infrastructure in Queensland, in the northeast of the country, in order to create a hyper-local weather data and forecast system for farmers in the region.  The pilot project is being organised with...

Australian IoT collective deploys LoRaWAN in Tasmania for cities, utilities, farmers

Australian IoT networking company National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has completed deployment of a LoRaWAN network in Tasmania in conjunction with local energy distribution utility TasNetworks. LoRaWAN gateways have been deployed on TasNetworks’ utility assets across the island state, south of the Australian mainland,...

NBN claims world record for long-range 5G mmWave transmission

NBN achieved a 5G mmWave transmission of close to 1Gbps at a distance of 7.3 km Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) is laying claim to the world record for long-range 5G transmission using millimeter wave spectrum during live testing at a proof-of-concept site near Mortlake, Victoria....

Telstra, Ericsson devise edge-cloud 5G bundle to drive Industry 4.0 Down Under

Telstra and Ericsson have struck a deal to bundle localised edge-based 5G connectivity and compute functions for enterprises in Australia. The pair are looking to develop a reusable “edge cloud solution”, out of a test model deployed already with an unnamed financial services company,...

Australian utility TasNetworks launches LoRaWAN grid network, Industry 4.0 platform

Australian electric utility Tasmanian Networks (TasNetworks) has appointed local LoRaWAN provider National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) to build a LoRaWAN network in the island state of Tasmania, off the southern Australian coast.  42-24, the IT and telecoms division of local government-owned TasNetworks, is will seek...

Australia appoints UK firm to run drone analytics for decommissioning old mines

The Australian government is to use drones and analytics to monitor the decommissioning and revegetation of mining sites in the north of the country. The department for the environment and energy in Australia has appointed UK-based analytics firm Maestrano Group to equip drones with video...

Optus expands 5G fixed wireless footprint

Optus is opening the service up to 138,000 homes in select locations In January, Optus, Australia’s second largest telecommunications company, began a campaign to gauge interest in a 5G fixed wireless service among its customers and ended up providing services to over 200 users. Now,...

5G in the land down under: Australia after Huawei ban

Huawei ban hinders Australia's 5G plan At the end of last year, Australia’s communications agency allocated 5G spectrum to four major telecoms, raising nearly AUD 853 million ($615.6 million) after selling 350 available spectrum lots. Dense Air Australia won 29 lots for AUD 18.49 million; Mobile...

Telensa to light up Australia’s Maroochydore smart-city development

UK firm Telensa will provide an intelligent street lighting system in a new smart city development, in the centre of Maroochydore, on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, which covers beach resorts and rural hinterland in southern Queensland. Telensa, a specialist in connected street lighting, will deploy its...

Australia may prevent Huawei from taking part in 5G deployments: report

The Chinese vendor invited Australian security agencies to meet with the firm R&D specialists to better understand its technology Chinese vendor Huawei may be prevented from taking part in the deployment of Australia’s 5G networks due to national security concerns, according to published reports. The Australian...

Macquarie Telecom deploys SD-WAN in Australia

Macquarie Telecom partners with VeloCloud to provide SD-WAN solution for Australian businesses Macquarie Telecom, an Australian telecommunications company, recently deployed a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service, which provides innovative technologies for intelligent network services, control and visibility. SD-WAN is a developing architecture that centralizes control...

Vodafone India readies 4G launch; Telstra nears 1 Gbps

Telco confirms plans to launch ‘4G’ next month Indian mobile operator Vodafone counted 188.2 million subscribers at the end of the first half of its fiscal year 2016, which ended Sept. 30. That number was an 8.2% increase compared with the same period last year....

Australian govt seeks $3.2 billion for spectrum licences renewal

Australia's major telecommunications groups are expected to cough about $3.2 billion as the federal government has decided to reissue spectrum licenses on 850MHz, 1800 MHz and 2100MHz bands.

Accenture and Telstra Launch Australian Product Innovation Lab to Accelerate Cloud Computing

Accenture | August 29, 2011 | Press Release 30 August 2011 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Telstra today announced a new Product Innovation Lab in Melbourne to develop cloud computing solutions for customers in Australia and New Zealand. The Lab supports the Accenture and Telstra cloud...

Vodafone New Zealand Agrees to Take Capacity on Pacific Cable for 10 Years

Bloomberg | August 21, 2011 | Tracy Withers Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) agreed to a 10- year deal to take capacity on a new undersea fiber cable linking New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. Read the full article here via Bloomberg