Gerry Harvey says businesses should pass on cost increases through higher prices despite RBA’s inflation warning

Gerry Harvey says businesses should pass on cost increases through higher prices despite RBA’s inflation warning

Billionaire retail mogul Gerry Harvey says businesses are justified in passing on cost increases through higher prices to maintain their profit margins and prevent bankruptcies, despite the Reserve Bank warning it could lead to higher inflation. Key points: Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey says businesses are well within their rights to pass on higher costs … Read more

Aussie Broadband is the most trusted telco in Australia

Aussie Broadband is the most trusted telco in Australia

Aussie Broadband’s white-label services are designed for big companies such as Origin Energy, which sell telecommunications services under their own brands. Point of difference The entrance of the NBN into the market saw Aussie Broadband shift from being a wireless infrastructure owner and builder to “just another” retail service provider over the NBN. It had … Read more

Optus outage cripples federal comms department staff

Optus outage cripples federal comms department staff

A government submission that sought to explain the impact of the Optus outage has revealed two out of three federal communications department staff with Optus mobiles could not dial the Triple Zero on the morning of the Optus outage. The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts lodged a submission to the … Read more

Sphere Drones integrated with Elsight beat Optus outage

Sphere Drones integrated with Elsight beat Optus outage

Australian technology solutions provider Elsight’s connection confidence Halo technology powered Sphere Drones’ Curo HubX (HubX) drone platform to keep drones in the air during the 8 November Optus outage. The drones leveraged Elsight’s technology to switch carriers when Optus’ services failed. Elsight’s Halo system, integrated to the HubX drone platform, provided a complete redundant multi-carrier … Read more

Sphere Drones integrated with Elsight beat Optus outage

Sphere Drones integrated with Elsight beat Optus outage

Australian technology solutions provider Elsight’s connection confidence Halo technology powered Sphere Drones’ Curo HubX (HubX) drone platform to keep drones in the air during the 8 November Optus outage. The drones leveraged Elsight’s technology to switch carriers when Optus’ services failed. Elsight’s Halo system, integrated to the HubX drone platform, provided a complete redundant multi-carrier … Read more

Elsight’s Halo connectivity system beats Optus outage to keep Sphere Drones flying during trialsof their innovative Curo HubX* drone platform

The Curo HubX (HubX) drone platform, equipped with ASX-listed Elsight’s (ELS) connection confidence Halo technology, kept drones in the air during the November 8 Optus outage by using Elsight’s technology to seamlessly switch carriers when the Optus service failed.  Elsight’s Halo system has been integrated into the HubX drone platform to provide complete redundant multi-carrier connectivity.   Trials … Read more

Optus outage review terms of reference revealed

Optus outage review terms of reference revealed

Optus has offered customers 200 gigabytes of free data as compensation for its network outage, a move that has been widely panned. Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigned from her position last week after presiding over both the major outage and a data breach 13 months earlier, with parent company Singtel now leading a … Read more

Australian telecoms boss quits after mass outage

Australian telecoms boss quits after mass outage

SYDNEY, Australia  -The boss of Australian telecoms provider Optus has resigned following a mass outage that cut communications to more than 10 million people, its parent group said Monday. Chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin is being replaced three days after she was grilled by Australia’s Senate over a technical glitch in the early hours of … Read more

Markets live: ASX opens higher, Australian dollar rises to almost four-month high

Markets live: ASX opens higher, Australian dollar rises to almost four-month high

DP World Australia, the nation’s largest ports operator, has revealed that hackers had accessed files containing personal details of its employees. This was the result of a cyber incident early this month which forced the company to suspend operations for three days. The breach, spotted on November 10, crippled operations at DP World, which manages … Read more