The Tasmanian Government Radio Network (TasGRN), used by the state’s public safety agencies and essential services personnel, has won the prestigious, national iAward at the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) 2024 awards.

ACCAN has called on medical authorities to take urgent action to ensure that up to 200,000 medical implant recipients are aware of the health threat posed by the “looming 3G network shutdown”.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has approved Optus and TPG Telecom's 11-year network sharing agreement.

The government will legislate new rules and enforceable standards on how Australian telcos should communicate outages to their customers.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found Radio 2GB Sydney and Radio 3AW Melbourne guilty of breaching broadcasting rules as both failed to disclose commercial agreements between their presenters and companies featured on their current affairs programs.

The competition regulator the ACCC will continue to closely monitor domestic airfares on services between metropolitan cities following Rex’s withdrawal from this market.

New Zealand competition regulator The Commerce Commission has issued its final decision to approve $1.722 billion expenditure by telco infrastructure wholesaler Chorus over the next four years (2025-2028) – but disallow $172.6 million that would have flowed through to price increases for consumers.

A new regulatory framework is needed to address the 51,854 phone and internet regional complaints plaguing consumers in remote areas, according to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO).