Foxtel is retaliating after Optus acquired the exclusive rights to the English Premier League, announcing it has signed deals with six major EPL clubs for all home and away games, as well as “behind the scenes” content. In November last year, Optus confirmed it had picked up the rights to the popular football league, for …

Optus is giving customers the English Premier League 2016/17 season, live and unmetered, all for roughly the same price as a monthly streaming subscription. The telco today announced plans for the EPL rights it picked up late last year, offering access for AU$15 a month on cheaper plans, and for free on mobile and home broadband plans valued over $85 …

Vodafone is shaking things up on prepaid, announcing a new customisable prepaid plan with a message to customers: Don’t use your good money on inclusions that you don’t need. The MyMix prepaid plan lets users tweak their data, call inclusions and plan expiry period, moving each inclusion up or down in value on a sliding scale within the MyVodafone app. …

Australians are being slugged with higher prices for less content and lower quality digital services, thanks to the “pervasive” use of geoblocking technology in Australia — and it’s time for the Government to put a stop to it. That’s according to a new draft report on Intellectual Property Arrangements, released by the Productivity Commission. The Productivity Commission’s 601-page report had …

Not with Telstra, Optus or Vodafone? Fear not — the little guys of Australia’s telco industry are getting 4G. Thanks to a new wholesale deal with Telstra, mobile resellers AldiMobile, Woolworths Mobile, Telechoice and Better Life will now be able to offer their customers 4G coverage. ALDIMobile is the first off the blocks, promising 4G (where it’s available) at no …

Everyone’s favourite 140-character micro-blogging platform is quietly setting off on a new course on the vast oceans of the Internet, changing classification in the app store from “Social Networking” to “News.” Rather than going up against the likes of Facebook, Skype and Facebook’s spin-off app Messenger, the move sees Twitter playing in the big leagues with The New York Times, …

Now playing: Watch this: Facebook reveals government requests to access users… 1:31 The government wants to get more and more information out of Facebook, but they don’t want you to know about it. The social network’s latest “Global Government Requests Report,” released Thursday, documented a 13 percent rise in government requests for Facebook user data in the second half of …

Prepaid customers often get the short end of the stick when it comes to bonus offers and telco deals. But that’s set to change with Optus announcing the launch of a new Optus Music service to bring unmetered music streaming to its prepaid customers. From May 2, the service will give customers on My Prepaid Ultimate and My Prepaid Daily …

More than 200,000 residences across regional and remote Australia can start connecting to the NBN with the network’s satellite service now available for retail sale. The service is being provided by the Sky Muster satellite, which launched last October to replace NBN’s Interim Satellite Service. NBN says customers buying through retail ISPs should expect satellite speeds of roughly 25Mbps for …

Let’s hope May wasn’t your month to start doing more outdoor activities. Throwing a little nostalgia in the waters, Netflix has enough “Jaws” movies to keep you terrified until next summer’s beach season. For kid-friendly chomp there’s “The Adventures of Sharkboy & Lavagirl” — or you could harpoon both those ideas and binge on the next season of “Arrow” (yes, …