Today
Optus falls out with its mobile towers investor AustralianSuper
The country’s largest super fund acquired a controlling stake in the telco’s infrastructure business for almost $2 billion in 2021. But relations have since soured.
- Aaron Weinman and Jenny Wiggins
This Month
Optus’ Australian accounts show $480m loss
Optus filed its own accounts with regulators this week showing its annual loss deepened more than six-fold from a year earlier.
- Jenny Wiggins
July
Former TPG Telecom email customers to be slugged up to $95 annually
Accounts with iiNet, Internode and Westnet addresses will start paying a yearly fee from September after they were transferred to a Norwegian-owned company.
- Jenny Wiggins
Hacked Optus gets award for cybersecurity nous
The irony of the award going to a company defending both a class action and an ACMA civil lawsuit for alleged security failures hung heavy in the room.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
Aussie Broadband discount offshoot Buddy chases lost customers
Aussie Broadband is hoping to win back some of the customers lost to rival Superloop with a new, cheap internet brand, Buddy Telco.
- Jenny Wiggins
AT&T hack undermines US national security, experts say
The telco giant said a hacker had compromised its network and stolen records of calls and text messages from nearly all of its 100 million wireless customers.
- Ryan Gallagher
Telstra increases phone plan prices above inflation rate
The telco is lifting prices for most of its mobile plans – and analysts warn there could be more price increases to come.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Analysis
- Due diligence
Competition for broadband intensifies as consumers crack down on bills
Small telcos such as Superloop and Aussie Broadband have been stealing internet customers from Telstra, TPG Telecom and Optus as consumers shop around.
- Jenny Wiggins
America’s campaign to kill Huawei has failed
After international sanctions drove profits down 70 per cent, the Chinese telecommunications company learnt that it didn’t need to rely on the West.
- The Economist
June
Superloop directors wanted ‘firm response’ to Aussie Broadband breach
Superloop’s board discussed whether Aussie Broadband was “aware” it would breach Singaporean rules when it attempted a takeover earlier this year.
- Jenny Wiggins
Telstra hires Deloitte to audit books, replacing EY after 25 years
The telecoms giant said changing auditors was “good governance” and wants to use Deloitte’s digital technology to reduce costs.
- Jenny Wiggins and Edmund Tadros
