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Gold Coast-based Pivotel has finalised its acquisition of wholesale voice and messaging specialists VoiceHub from telco challenger Swoop in an all-cash deal for $9 million.

Regional, rural and remote communication solutions provider Pivotel, the Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN) and Roobuck have been jointly awarded a grant of $1.5 million under the Telecommunications Disaster Resilience Innovation (TDRI) program, to support the next phase of the pilot Large Area WiFi project.

Swoop has divested its wholesale business Voicehub to Pivotel in an all-cash deal for $9 million.

Telco alliance fostering competition in digital communications Commpete has brought teams from Pivotel and BAI Communications to front the parliamentary inquiry into co-investment in multi-carrier regional mobile infrastructure. Australian legal firm Maddocks also appeared at the hearing as external counsel for Commpete.

The NSW Liberal and Nationals Government will invest $250 million to boost mobile reception in the bush in small communities, tourism hotspots, and along key transport corridors, it announced.

Rural and remote communication solutions provider Pivotel plans to make Australia one of the first countries after the European Aviation Network to experience broadband connectivity in the sky.

The mains adaptors supplied with two Thuraya satellite phone models has been recalled due to an electrical safety risk.

Australian telco Pivotel and content and connectivity provider SES have agreed to construct a new satellite ground station at Pivotel's Dubbo teleport. The ground station will enable the delivery of enhanced telecommunication services to regional communities.

Satellite communications provider Inmarsat has entered into an agreement with Internet of Things solutions provider to the agricultural industry Farmbot Monitoring and mobile satellite services Pivotel aimed at bringing IoT-enabled water management solutions to farmers across Australia.

Australian satellite communication equipment manufacturer Beam Communications' latest reseller is Australian mobile carrier Pivotel Satellite.

Australian mobile carrier Pivotel has acquired two US-based mobile satellite solution businesses, MVS USA and Explorer Satellite Communications, through its US based subsidiary Pivotel America.

Telecommunications provider Pivotel has congratulated Iridium Communications on the commercial launch of its Iridium Certus broadband service, enabled by the company's new $3 billion Iridium NEXT satellite constellation.

Complaints about services delivered by Australia’s biggest telcos Telstra, Optus and Vodafone continued to fall over the three months to the end of September, according to the latest Complaints in Context report from the Communications Alliance.

The Communications Alliance has published a guideline to help telecommunications providers assist customers who are affected by domestic and family violence.

Mobile satellite communications company Pivotel has announced the acquisition of Wrights Satellite Connections, a "leading-edge provider of mobile satellite communications solutions in New Zealand with a strong focus on the government, defence and maritime industries".

Pivotel has launched "the world’s first satellite device" combining Inmarsat's Fleet Xpress Network Service Device with the RedPort Optimizer Enterprise satellite router and VoIP gateway "delivering all-in-one comms for maritime and satellite providers".

If you take up one of the new "unlimited" plans from Vodafone or Telstra, you know that you get at least 40GB of data at full speed before speeds slow to a max of 1.5Mbps, but Think Mobile thinks its plans are still a better deal with 80GB full speed for $48.

Iridium's next-gen satellite constellation, NEXT, has selected Australian mobile satellite solutions provider Pivotel to help "bring metropolitan mobile data capabilities to the bush".

Australian satellite telecommunications provider Pivotel has partnered with the humanitarian group, Internet for Humanity, to offer communications hardware and Internet access to remote communities in Uganda through its subsidiary, Global Marine Networks.

The number of complaints about services provided by telecommunications companies rose marginally to 8.7 complaints per 10,000 services in the three months to the end of December 2017, with Telstra, Optus and Vodafone all recording increases.