New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has released a for-consultation draft, for regulatory purposes, of its views on the value of Chorus’ fibre network. The value the commission assigns to the network is a key building block it uses to determine the revenues Chorus will be able to earn over the first…
Communications Alliance is seeking public comment on a new industry code that would require telcos to beef up their customer authentication practices. Comms Alliance says new code C666:2021 Existing Customer Authentication would work in concert with other regulatory safeguards, including the Pre-Port Verification Standard (for verifying customers wanting to switch…
ASX listed Catapult Sports (ASX:CAT), which specialises in technology for monitoring sportspeople in action, has ridden the disruption to sport globally with a number of technologies for remote monitoring, contact tracing and proximity monitoring. Chairman Dr Adir Shiffman told the company’s AGM on 20 August that company had leveraged its technology…
An ETSI whitepaper sets out proposals for a standard way of expressing the state of fibre connectivity in a country or community. In the paper Fibre Development Index: Driving Towards an F5G Gigabit Society ETSI says fibre is now pervasive in most telecom networks, fixed and mobile, and being deployed…
The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) is moving to address problems with the competitive smart metering regime that came in to effect last year and that makes the customer’s chosen electricity retailer responsible for managing installation and maintenance of new meters. The AEMC says there has been a rapid uptake…