Broadband News
Fri, 24th Oct 2025
AWS outage caused by "unlikely interaction" between automated systems
The Amazon Web Services outage in North Virginia was caused by a software bug in an automated DNS management system that caused one automated component to delete another’s work.
Source: iTnews Australia
ACMA rejects draft consumer code as calls to end self-regulation grow louder
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has accused carriers of taking a weak stance when it comes to safeguarding the interests of Australian telecommunications consumers.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra finds firmware locked Samsung handsets to Vodafone for Triple-0 calls
Australian users of about 70 dated Samsung handsets face being cut off from mobile service due to problems with their devices’ firmware, which exclusively attempts to route Triple Zero calls to the shuttered Vodafone 3G network.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 23rd Oct 2025
Vocus scores three new federal government contracts
The federal government has awarded Vocus three telecommunications contracts valued at around $6 million over the next three years.
Source: iTnews Australia
Optus brings in ex-NBN Co CIO to run technology
Optus’ chief information officer of four years Mark Potter will leave the telco in March of next year to make way for NBN Co’s veteran IT chief, John McInerney.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 22nd Oct 2025
ACMA cracks down on mobile 000 'camp-on' failures
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has tightened mobile phone testing standards and imposed new network equipment monitoring rules on carriers as the fallout over recent emergency call failures continues.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 21st Oct 2025
This ChatGPT browser is genuinely impressive. Will anyone actually use it?
OpenAI’s AI-powered browser can book holidays and build shopping lists while you browse. But it’s competing against the most stubborn force in tech: user habits.
Source: SMH
Telstra completes one-third of national fibre rollout
Telstra has completed one-third of the rollout of a new national fibre network that it is now branding as 'Aura'.
Source: iTnews Australia
‘They’re watching’: How Monday’s internet crash became China’s training
Trump’s former cyber boss warns China and criminals are studying internet crashes such as the AWS outage to launch devastating strikes on Australia.
Source: SMH
Telstra’s Aura Network to add AUD $29 billion to Australia’s GDP as Sydney-Melbourne route opens
Telstra has activated the Sydney-Melbourne coastal leg of its new fibre network, now called the Aura network, a critical milestone in Telstra’s $1.6 billion investment aimed at powering Australia’s digital future.
Source: iTWire
Telstra activates new $1.6B fibre coastal link Aura Network
Telstra has unveiled the next iteration of its $1.6 billion fibre network – a Sydney to Melbourne coastal route and a rebranding from Intercity Fibre Network to Aura Network.
Source: ARN
Why one company’s glitch just broke half the internet
When Amazon sneezes, the world catches a cold. It’s time we stopped accepting that as normal.
Source: SMH
Mon, 20th Oct 2025
Internet still struggling after mammoth Amazon outage
Amazon’s cloud arm is still struggling to recover after a major cloud services outage impacted the likes of Canva, Roblox, Snapchat, Amazon and other companies globally, including in Australia, affecting millions of users and effectively bringing the internet to a standstill.
Source: SMH
Major AWS outage disrupts apps and services worldwide
Network connectivity issues in AWS' US-EAST-1 facility have caused widespread outages affecting thousands of websites along with some of the world's most popular apps - Snapchat and Reddit - and disrupted businesses globally.
Source: iTnews Australia
Internet Archive Celebrates One Trillion Web Pages Preserved
The Internet Archive this week marks a once-in-a-generation achievement under the banner “The Web We’ve Built: Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived.” Several events will celebrate the milestone of the Wayback Machine having now preserved more than one trillion web pages, a vast, public record of our digital lives, safeguarded for the future.
Source: iTWire
Sun, 19th Oct 2025
Vocus ISP Dodo's email system breached on Friday
Vocus-owned ISP Dodo’s email system was breached on Friday last week, with some 1600 accounts accessed and a small number of customers then falling victim to SIM swapping.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co ‘focused on energy and resource efficiency’ with new devices for home broadband connections
NBN Co has announced that it is connecting households and businesses across Australia in a way that is focused on reducing emissions and resource use with new energy-efficient customer premises equipment.
Source: iTWire
Tue, 14th Oct 2025
No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced.
Source: SMH