Networking

Spark extends Cat-M1 IoT network across New Zealand Just five months after launching the network, Spark has announced that its Cat-M1 IoT coverage now reaches 98 percent of the New Zealand population. New Zealand telco Spark has reported a sharp increase in its profits for the 2019 fiscal year, reporting ...

Image: Rosina Possingham Internet of Things (IoT) technology startup Myriota has signed an agreement with Optus Business to add mobile connectivity to its plans. The new connectivity will be offered at no extra cost to Myriota customers, with the pair to hit the market with four plans that offer direct ...

Finance minister believes NBN write-down would not impact Budget surplus Finance Minister labels a potential NBN write-down as a political decision. The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia has reported its full year results to June 30, with total revenue for NBN up 43% to ...

Image: Asha Barbaschow/ZDNet Telstra has once again pinned the National Broadband Network (NBN) as the cause of a drop in profitability, claiming it is responsible for AU$600 million in negative earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA). In its results released on Thursday, Telstra said the cost to it ...

The game of 5G and geopolitics: What’s at stake? The world’s most promising technology platform has become the grand prize in a game of global trade war. As China seizes prime platform territory, US allies find themselves caught in the crossfire. ZDNet’s Scott Fulton sits down with TechRepublic’s Karen Roby ...

Uber is in the Middle East to stay, buys main rival Uber acquires Middle East ride-hailing service Careem in $3.1 billion deal. The Middle East and North Africa region is large and diverse, with a correspondingly complex relationship to changes in technology. Its nations are seeking to harness the potential ...

In the presentations given by Telstra CEO Andy Penn and CFO Vicki Brady on Thursday, the word ‘headwind’ appeared in close proximity to the letters NBN 16 times. The intent was clear, NBN had come and taken Telstra’s lunch, and was now busy consuming it. But don’t panic just yet ...

iPhone 11? We think it’s going to be quite boring All of these small, iterative improvements are nice, but they aren’t particularly compelling, especially if you have an iPhone XS or an XR. Read more: https://zd.net/2YQSzOL For some reason, Samsung smartphones appear to be getting faster download speeds from US ...

Image: Angela Lang/CNET 2019 has been a perilous year so far for the world’s leading telecom equipment manufacturer, and second largest smartphone maker, China’s Huawei. First, Donald Trump banned the company on May 15 from selling its phone or telecom equipment in the US through a national security order. In ...

The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia has taken the wraps off its Sky Muster Plus plan, first flagged in November last year. The service will see NBN offer a Layer 3 service, that will enable it to exempt certain traffic from its data quota ...