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IN THE NEWS: Mapping the digital gap, ACCAN 2023 Grants round to open in January, and more
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Yuelamu community is a small community located in the Central Desert region of the rthern Territory (NT), about 43km west of the major community of Yuendumu, and 300km north-west of the regional centre of Alice Springs. The traditional owners of Yuelamu are the Anmatyerr (Anmatjere) people. This report highlights the current access and use of media, telecommunications and online services, as well as the digital inclusion and service delivery challenges in Yuelamu and across the Central Desert region. [ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society]
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ACCAN’s Grants Round for 2023 is scheduled to open in January, with funded projects to begin from July. ACCAN encourages anyone interested in applying to discuss their project ideas with the Grants Team. For more information about our grants scheme, or how grants applications are assessed, visit our website. [ACCAN]
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Broadband retailers are more regularly meeting or exceeding their advertised speed claims for NBN fixed-line plans during busy evening hours, the ACCC’s latest Measuring Broadband Australia (MBA) report shows. (Fixed-line connections are those that have a physical line running to the property, such as fibre to the premises or fibre to the node.) [ACCC media release]
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Global 5G subscriptions remain on track to top one billion by the end of 2022, and five billion by the end of 2028, according to a new report from global telecommunications equipment supplier Ericsson. The November 2022 Ericsson Mobility Report also forecasts global fixed wireless access (FWA) connections to grow faster than previously expected, reaching more than 300 million by the end of 2028. [iTWire]
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The ACCC has instituted Federal Court proceedings against Telstra for allegedly making false or misleading representations about upload speed to residential broadband customers of its cheaper brand, Belong. [iTWire]
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From Monday this week, NBN Co will be trialling a new ‘Fixed Wireless Fair Use’ policy. It’s something the company said aims to ensure fair access to its network. A spokesperson for the company responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Network told Gizmodo Australia that in addition to aiming to help ensure fair access to services over the NBN network, its Fixed Wireless policy will also provide access to a “great online experience, especially during peak-usage times”. [Gizmodo]
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CDC Data Centres has announced plans to spend an additional $1 billion to expand its data centre campus at Eastern Creek in Sydney’s west to build two new facilities. The announcement follows this week's opening of the $1.5 billion Eastern Creek campus, which has four facilities delivering a combined capacity of 123 megawatts. The two additional facilities are expected to add some 108 more megawatts upon completion. [CRN]
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If the debate about Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter tells us anything, it’s that people – including those in governments – don’t understand how the World Wide Web works. We know that the algorithms Twitter uses to recommend content can guide people to develop more extreme views, but what is considered extreme has changed since Musk’s takeover. Many things he considers free speech would previously have been thought to be derogatory, misogynistic, violent or harmful in many other ways. [The Conversation]
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Navigating domain registration processes can be tricky. Small business owners and employees need to be equipped with the right knowledge and resources to stay up to speed with emerging cybersecurity trends. Our simple guides aim to help small business owners protect their business, personal information, and private information like credit card details that are shared with them by customers. For ACCAN’s ‘Your Small Business Guide’ tip sheets, visit our Talking Telco page. [ACCAN]
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Have you ever chatted with a friend about buying a certain item and been targeted with an ad for that same item the next day? If so, you may have wondered whether your smartphone was “listening” to you. But is it really? Well, it’s no coincidence the item you’d been interested in was the same one you were targeted with. But that doesn’t mean your device is actually listening to your conversations — it doesn’t need to. There’s a good chance you’re already giving it all the information it needs. [lifehacker]
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