Australia’s telco market could soon get just a little bit smaller. TPG and Vodafone Hutchison Australia have confirmed Wednesday they are in “exploratory discussions” to merge. TPG confirmed the news with an announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange this morning, noting there is “no certainty that any transaction will eventuate or what the terms of …
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TPG wants to be Australia’s big new mobile telco, and it’s offering free unlimited data to convince you. The TPG Mobile Network will launch within months (it’s given a date of between July and December), offering the first customers to sign up unlimited data for free for six months. From then, it will charge AU$9.99 a month. TPG says this …
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Cue another sigh of disappointment for the NBN. iiNet and Internode, internet service providers owned by TPG, have been ordered to compensate more than 11,000 customers for advertising inaccurate NBN speeds. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission found 8,000 iiNet customers and 3,000 Internode customers were affected by lower-than-promised NBN speeds from 2015 to 2017. If you were one of …
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The round-the-world chase of The Pirate Bay continues, with Australian internet service providers now being told they must block the site by the end of the year. The Federal Court of Australia has ordered a number of Australia’s largest ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, along with a number of other torrent sites including TorrentHound, Torrentz, IsoHunt and SolarMovie. The …
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After more than 15 months winding its way through the Federal Court, the case between Dallas Buyers Club and iiNet is finally over, with lawyers for the film’s rights holders opting not to take further legal action in its pursuit of pirates. In April last year, DBC was granted the right to the personal details of those alleged to have …
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