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IN THE NEWS: No South Australian/Territorian Left Offline Roundtable, ACCAN Acting CEO on IIC Panel, and more.
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In our follow-up series of state-based roundtables, ACCAN and NBN Co will dig deeper into the top issues faced by South Australian and Territorian communities, including what NBN has been doing to address the issues raised at the last roundtable. There will also be an opportunity for participants to raise any emerging or recurring issues that are being experienced in your communities. The roundtable will be held via videoconference on Wednesday the 1st of December 2021. To help with our planning, please register in advance for this meeting prior to 5pm Monday 29 November [ACCAN].
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ACCAN’s Andrew Williams will be joining Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, on an industry panel for a discussion about the development of new industry codes under the Online Safety Act 2021. The panel will take place on the 22nd of November, from 2:00-3:30. The registration link can be found here.
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Telstra’s biggest rivals have condemned a decision by the federal government to delay an independent review into payments worth billions it receives to deliver landline services in regional Australia, arguing the money could be better spent on more modern communications technologies [SMH].
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TPG Telecom’s 5G network will cover 85 per cent of the population in major cities from Monday morning, a key milestone for Australia’s second-largest ASX-listed telco, after its rollout faced major issues due to a government ban on Huawei infrastructure and further delays over a lengthy merger process [AFR].
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The NSW government has moved to strengthen the privacy protections behind QR code check-in data that prevent law enforcement access by enshrining safeguards in legislation [iTNews].
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Telstra is creating a joint venture company with Quantium that will focus on selling automated and data-led decision-making systems to enterprise customers, along with other analytics use cases [iTNews].
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The refund announcement follows an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) investigation into Shaw Academy, which provides students with online courses. The ACCC conducted its investigation after receiving consumer complaints relating to difficulties in cancelling a free four-week online education course trial offered by Shaw Academy, which was then converted into a paid subscription even after some consumers took the appropriate steps to cancel before the end of their free trial [iTwire].
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The NBN was declared to be fully operational by Communications Minister Paul Fletcher last year. Some users in regional and rural areas still don't have access to NBN or have found the service unreliable. NBN Co is exploring 5G technology as a way to enhance fixed wireless connections [ABC].
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The federal government has launched a new online tool to help businesses better understand their digital maturity and readiness to digitise operations. The Digital Ready Assessment Tool is a questionnaire-based tool that, once completed, provides businesses a digital competency rating in comparison to peer businesses and recommendations for what actions and initiatives can be taken to improve digital maturity [ZDNet].
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Telstra is leaning heavily on its 5G internet services at the moment, but despite this big subscriber push, it claims it isn’t a replacement for NBN.“So let me answer a question that I know you have,” Telstra’s executive for networks and IT Nikos Katinakis said at yesterday’s investor conference. “Is 5G fixed wireless a replacement for NBN? The answer to that is no.” [Channel News]
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