Broadband News
Wed, 03rd Dec 2025
Brisbane hit with widespread Optus internet outages
Optus apologises for NBN internet outages affecting Brisbane and some other parts of Queensland.
Source: ABC News
YouTube to logout its under-16 users next week
Google will automatically sign under 16s out of YouTube next week, which will disable their channels, subscriptions and playlists, as well as some parental controls.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co curbed on FTTN overbuild cost claim to stop bill shock
NBN Co will be limited in how much the last part of its fibre-to-the-network overbuild can be used to increase broadband pricing from mid-2032.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 02nd Dec 2025
Australian teen challenging social media ban says internet will be less safe
A teenager suing the Australian government to overturn a ban on social media for under-16s says the measure would make the internet more dangerous for young people and be widely circumvented.
Source: iTnews Australia
Samsung handsets could be leaving hundreds of thousands at risk
Hundreds of thousands of Australian consumers using some models of Samsung mobile phones are currently at risk of not being able reaching emergency services reliably, according to the communications regulator, ACMA.
Source: iTnews Australia
Federal Court orders Google to pay $55 million for anti-competitive conduct
Australia's Federal Court has order Google to pay $55 million in penalties after it found that "understandings" it entered with local telcos to preload its search engine on Android devices breached competition laws.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 01st Dec 2025
Opticomm customers across Australia losing free-to-air television and facing internet outages
When Leah Wray and her family moved into a new suburb on the outskirts of Darwin in 2023, she was sold on the promise of it being a "smart community" with top-of-the-line underground technology.
Source: ABC News
Government drops AI 'mandatory guardrails', reveals road map on data centres
The federal government's long-awaited National AI Plan will seek to accelerate the growth of artificial intelligence in Australia, and largely leverage existing laws to protect against its worst harms.
Source: ABC News
Thu, 27th Nov 2025
BoM never planned to end reliance on 'legacy' site
After blowing past its budget to spend $96 million dollars on overhauling its website, generating a political pyroclastic cloud, the Bureau of Meteorology can’t end its reliance on its older web portal,
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 26th Nov 2025
TPG Telecom says disaster roaming deal with Telstra and Optus is close
TPG Telecom has told the parliamentary triple zero inquiry into a fatal emergency call service outage last month that it is close to finalising an agreement with its two main rivals for temporary disaster roaming.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra emergency call ops did not spot Optus triple zero outage
Telstra, as holder of the federal government’s emergency call provider contract, has told a parliamentary inquiry into the fatal September Optus triple zero outage that it did not detect the disruption on the day it occurred.
Source: iTnews Australia
Victorian premier demands answers after copper thieves trigger Optus crisis
Jacinta Allan has sought an urgent briefing after another Optus outage left more than 14,000 customers in the lurch.
Source: SMH
Tue, 25th Nov 2025
Breaking: Optus investigating 'significant' outage south of Melbourne
Calls to emergency services have been impacted by the outage, the telco confirmed, with more than 14,000 customers affected.
Source: ABC News
Triple Zero Custodian might force telcos to share info
The federal government’s newly-operationalised Triple Zero Custodian might force telcos to enter new information sharing schemes to ensure emergency call services operate reliably and oblige them to be more transparent with information during disruptions.
Source: iTnews Australia
Sun, 23rd Nov 2025
Google Cloud launches TalayLink subsea cable and new connectivity hubs
Google Cloud has announced the launch of TalayLink, a new subsea cable connecting Australia and Thailand that it says will “significantly increase the reach, reliability, and resilience of digital connectivity across Asia Pacific and around the world”.
Source: iTWire
Wed, 19th Nov 2025
Meta to block Facebook and Instagram for Australian teens by December 10
Meta will block Australian users under 16 from accessing Instagram, Facebook and Threads by December 10 to comply with the country’s sweeping social media ban for teenagers, the company said.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 18th Nov 2025
Cloudflare chaos: Third internet outage in four weeks triggers global disruptions
A massive outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare triggered a wave of “500 Internal Server Errors” across the globe, knocking substantial portions of the web offline.
Source: SMH
Optus takes $826,000 hit for anti-scam breaches
Optus has copped an $826,000 fine after scammers exploited a vulnerability in a third-party identity verification system it used, allowing them to steal phone numbers and access users' bank accounts.
Source: iTnews Australia