Optus and Telstra shared the spoils at this week’s auction of sub-1 GHz frequencies for 5G in Australia, with smaller rival TPG declining to participate and new market entrants failing to materialise.
Australia has formally opened its sub-1 GHz 5G spectrum auction process and interested parties have three weeks to submit their applications for a contest that will take place before the end of the year.
An imminent trial marks a significant step for Samsung in Australia as well as adding to a busy week for TPG.
Australian mobile operator TPG Telecom wants to offer reliable indoor 5G coverage and boost the overall range of its network.
It’s all kicking off down under after TPG Telecom took issue with price-hike accusations levelled at it by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Although regulatory opposition has delayed the transaction, Vodafone Australia and TPG are now officially a single entity, operating under the name TPG Telecom.
Mukesh Ambani is proving to be one of the most popular figures in the telco world as two more investors have bought into the Reliance Jio mission to digitise India.
The final arguments have been presented to the Australian courts and now Vodafone Australia and TPG will have to wait until early 2020 for the decision on whether the $15 billion merger will be allowed.
Lawyers representing Vodafone Australia and TPG have suggested the Australian competition watchdog is not living in reality as it continues quest to force in a fourth MNO.
The Australian competition authority has decided that the telco merger of Vodafone and TPG amounts to excessive consolidation and has blocked it.
Australian telco TPG has abandoned plans to create a fourth mobile offering after the government order blacklisting Huawei, its main supplier, from the country.
The Australian regulator has pushed back the deadline for its decision on whether Vodafone Australia and TPG can move forward with the proposed £8.2 billion merger.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is having a closer look at the AUS$15 billion TPG and Vodafone merger, with the signs looking rather ominous for the pair.
Competition and convergence are the key words as Vodafone Australia and TPG announce merger plans to lodge a challenge to market leaders Telstra and Optus.
The Australian mobile market may be set for consolidation with the revelation that Vodafone and TPG are thinking of hooking up.
TPG has announced customers who sign-up to the telcos new mobile offering will receive the first six months of data, voice and texts for free in exchange for helping test out the new network.
UK comms regulator @Ofcom has released an update to its Connected Nations report, which shows the country is nearin hhttps://t.co/D4fdJpWwuE
28 May 2023 @ 13:15:10 UTC
Facebook owner @Meta has been issued a 1.2 billion fine for ##GDPRviolations in relation to data on European citiz hthttps://t.co/xMcjvqVNUQ
28 May 2023 @ 11:10:10 UTC
President Biden has nominated telco lawyer Anna Gomez for Commissioner of the US Federal Communications Commission hhttps://t.co/So1MdLMx9J
28 May 2023 @ 09:20:11 UTC
