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Vodafone is about to take its NBN plans to the farthest reaches of Australia (read: Brisbane, Gold Coast, Adelaide, Perth and Tasmania, as well as the Melbourne and Sydney markets it’s been operating in) so it’s decided to make some announcements to sweeten the deal.  Vodafone First is Vodafone TV, a fairly open Android TV …

Here’s the good news: Australia is now home to the world’s first 5G-capable Wi-Fi hotspots. The bad news? There are currently no 5G-capable phones or tablets on the market, so no one using them will see 5G speeds. Aussie carrier Telstra installed the hotspots at its 5G Innovation Centre in South Port on Australia’s east coast, utilising its 5G test …

Telstra has admitted it may have charged up to 100,000 customers for third-party content like apps and games without them knowing, and will pay a fine of AU$10 million for the mistake. The penalty relates to so-called “premium direct billing” charges it made on customer accounts during 2015 and 2016. Premium direct billing (PBD) allows telco customers to sign up …

TPG advertised its NBN plans as “seriously fast internet.” But now the ISP will be forced to compensate nearly 8,000 of its customers after it failed to deliver adequate speeds. The ACCC today announced that TPG has agreed to compensate customers for misleading them over the speeds it could deliver over fibre to the node (FTTN). The refunds apply to …

Vodafone is now officially selling home broadband. After teasing a launch since last year, the telco opened orders for its NBN service on Monday both online and in-stores. The telco is kicking off service in a limited number of cities, offering NBN to residents in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Newcastle and Geelong. You won’t need to be an existing Vodafone customer …

If you’re one of the roughly 2.5 million Australians still yet to connect to the NBN via HFC, then we have bad news: Your service is going to be delayed another six to nine months. NBN has confirmed it is “pausing” further orders of NBN service over HFC technology, effective immediately. The company plans to get through the current backlog …

Foxtel is looking decidedly un-Foxtelish these days. Pay TV without the cable. Playing nice with other streaming services. A Foxtel box that doesn’t really look like a Foxtel box. The company Wednesday announced the launch of the Foxtel Now Box — a set-top puck created for Foxtel’s pay-by-the-month streaming service, Foxtel Now, a puck which supports other streaming services and …

Telstra will now have to compensate 42,000 customers after offering high speed NBN plans that failed to deliver the promised speeds.  The ACCC revealed Wednesday that Telstra sold advertised speeds to its customers, including its 100Mbps  “Super Fast Speed Boost” plan, despite the fact that some of these customers had no way of getting these speeds in the real world. …

Telstra announced Thursday that it will introduce unlimited data plans for top-tier broadband customers by the end of the month, as well as doubling data allowances for customers on lower plans. The deal, which Telstra is dubbing a “data gift,” will see new and existing Telstra home broadband customers on $99 and above plans get unlimited data. Telstra says it …

If Telstra has its way, you’ll never have to go anywhere else for entertainment ever again. The telco announced Monday the launch of Telstra TV2, also dubbed “the new Telstra TV,” building on the first generation, Roku-powered set-top box it first released in 2015. The second-gen device has a lot of the same features as the original Telstra TV — …