Broadband News
Tue, 09th Dec 2025
TPG Telecom reveals potential new fatality linked to Samsung handset
TPG Telecom has reported another potential triple zero call-related customer fatality linked to the use of a Samsung mobile handset model with a known emergency calling limitation.
Source: iTnews Australia
‘People want me to fail’: The woman in charge of enforcing Australia’s social media ban feels the heat
Julie Inman Grant is battling tech giants and High Court challenges while navigating her 13-year-old daughter’s conviction that the ban will “ruin her life”.
Source: SMH
TPG Telecom links second death to Triple Zero failure
TPG Telecom chief executive Iñaki Berroeta flags another death possibly linked to a customer's inability to call Triple Zero (000) on their Samsung mobile phone.
Source: ABC News
Mon, 08th Dec 2025
TPG reveals second possible Triple Zero death
The telco’s chief executive Inaki Berroeta has told a Senate committee hearing that incompatible Samsung software is to blame.
Source: SMH
Vocus seeks four new submarine cable protection zones
Vocus is lobbying the government to more than double the number of submarine cable protection zones in Australia and to more actively police the areas.
Source: iTnews Australia
Keep AI browsers out of your enterprise, warns Gartner
AI browsers including Perplexity Comet and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas present security risks that cannot be adequately mitigated, and enterprises should prevent employees using them, according to Gartner.
Source: Computerworld
NBN Co teams up with RMIT University to ‘advance broadband innovation in support of Australia’s digital future’
A new three-year agreement between NBN Co and RMIT University will bring together academics and telco industry experts with the aim of developing enhanced broadband outcomes for the nation.
Source: iTWire
Fri, 05th Dec 2025
NEXTDC to build AI campus and GPU "supercluster" in Sydney
NEXTDC will build an AI campus and GPU "supercluster" in Western Sydney that will power OpenAI's services in Australia.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 04th Dec 2025
Samsung tried to fix triple zero problem with mobiles nearly five years ago
The mystery over why owners of a group of 71 Samsung mobile phone models couldn’t place emergency calls properly has taken strange turn, with Samsung insisting that it took steps to fix the problem nearly five years ago.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 03rd Dec 2025
Optus network server failure downs NBN services in Queensland
A network server failure is behind a lengthy outage impacting around 95,000 Optus NBN customers in Brisbane and parts of Queensland.
Source: iTnews Australia
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