Broadband News
Tue, 19th Aug 2025
Cyber attack exposes details of more than 200,000 iinet customers
A list of about 280,000 active email addresses and roughly 20,000 active landline phone numbers have been extracted from iiNet's order management system.
Source: ABC News
iiNet suffers cyber incident in order management system breach
iiNet’s order management system has been breached by an unknown third party, with both current and historical customers affected.
Source: ARN
NZ authorities' warning over Aussie's controversial 'ethical' internet
New Zealand's financial watchdog has issued a warning about an embattled internet scheme founded by an Australian with a colourful past.
Source: ABC News
Telstra tapped for rural and remote AusPost Starlink rollout
Telstra has partnered with Australia Post to roll out SpaceX’s Starlink-powered satellite services to 270 post offices in rural remote locations nation-wide.
Source: ARN
Mon, 18th Aug 2025
TPG Telecom reveals iiNet order management system breached
TPG Telecom has revealed that iiNet’s order management system was breached by an unknown attacker who abused legitimate credentials to gain access.
Source: iTnews Australia
Google faces $55m fine over Telstra, Optus search deals
Google is facing Federal Court proceedings and a $55 million fine over historical agreements struck with Telstra and Optus to put Google Search on Android phones sold by the telcos.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 13th Aug 2025
Is Perplexity’s $34 billion offer to buy Chrome real or a marketing stunt?
AI startup Perplexity has sent Google/Alphabet an offer to buy Chrome for $34.5 billion.
Source: Computerworld
Breaking: Telstra outage wipes out telecommunication in southern NSW
The issue is affecting about 100 base stations and thousands of customers.
Source: ABC News
Tue, 12th Aug 2025
NBN Co to reach 10 million premises with top tier by end 2025
Australian government owned broadband wholesaler NBN Co says it will enable more than 10 million fixed line premises to access its top speed tier by the end of 2025.
Source: iTWire
Apple, Google lose out to Fortnite developer in landmark ruling
The judgment could reshape digital app stores and also lead to one of the largest class action payouts in Australian history.
Source: SMH
NBN Co weaves AI and automation into its operational "fabric"
NBN Co is embedding AI and automation “into the fabric of [its] operations”, with tools already live for design, support and knowledge access, and spending in the tens of millions.
Source: iTnews Australia
Sun, 10th Aug 2025
Australian businesses leverage 5G to unlock their full potential
Misconceptions around the cost of deploying and maintaining 5G Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs) are stopping Australian businesses from embracing 5G to power disruptive technologies and drive innovation.
Source: iTnews Australia
Fri, 08th Aug 2025
The NBN is getting its biggest upgrade ever. Most people have no idea
Fairly or not, Australia’s NBN has long been the butt of jokes, ranking below Nicaragua and Venezuela for download speeds. That’s about to change.
Source: SMH
Privacy watchdog sues Optus over mass data breach
The telco is facing Federal Court action over a cyberattack that affected some 10 million Australians.
Source: SMH
Optus to answer privacy court case stemming from 2022 data breach
Optus is set to face a privacy lawsuit stemming from its 2022 data breach, with Federal Court proceedings filed by the Australian Information Commissioner.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 05th Aug 2025
AI crawlers vs. web defenses: Cloudflare-Perplexity fight reveals cracks in internet trust
A public war of words has erupted between cloud infrastructure leader Cloudflare and AI search company Perplexity, with both sides making serious allegations about each other’s technical competence in a dispute that industry analysts say exposes fundamental flaws in how enterprises protect content from AI data collection.
Source: Computerworld
Cloudflare and Perplexity slug it out over alleged AI bot block evasion
Is it deceptive, standards-violating content scraping or a security and internet infrastructure company on a crusade against artificial intelligence startups?
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co snubs Musk, inks satellite deal with Bezos’ Amazon
The US tech giant will provide high-speed broadband to hundreds of thousands of Australian users from next year.
Source: SMH