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TPG Telecom – which owns Vodafone – has expanded their network in Australia in a bid to compete with Telstra and Optus.

‘Getting rid of the bush tax’: Vodafone vows to take fight to Telstra in regional areas

The network expansion increases Vodafone’s reach to one million square kilometres, injecting much-needed competition into regional areas.

  • Hannah Kennelly

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Some Telstra customers are unable to make or receive calls.

Will customers stomach higher prices from Telstra?

Mobile phone plan prices are likely to rise following Telstra’s announcement to revamp its pricing structure, but not everyone is convinced that its customers will stick around.

  • David Swan
have removed TikTok’s data-tracking tool after the nation’s privacy commissioner launched an inquiry into the social media giant’s harvesting of Australians’ data.

Australian companies dump TikTok tracking tool amid privacy concerns

Some of the nation’s largest brands, along with government agencies, have removed TikTok’s data-tracking tool, but others are sticking with it.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey and David Swan
Customers were left in the dark after Optus experienced an outage across the entire country last week.

Identity of ‘third party’ that brought down Optus network revealed

An executive from the company that contributed to the Optus outage left a Canadian telco less than two weeks after it suffered an almost identical outage last year.

  • David Swan and Ben Grubb
The Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai.

$5 a day or $75 an hour? Aussies caught out by mobile roaming gaps

Australians on their way to Europe are being stung with international roaming charges at various stopover destinations that aren’t covered by their telco.

  • Katherine Scott
Stranger Things 3.

The Stranger Things effect: Studios hit Australian telcos with fresh pirate site action

A group of film production giants including Roadshow, Disney and Netflix have launched fresh court action against Australian telcos as consumers flock back to pirate sites.

  • Sarah Danckert
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Liberal MP Julian Leeser wants to link telco executive pay to improved customer service.

Telco executive bonuses at risk if in-home mobile black spots not fixed: MP’s bill

Liberal MP Julian Leeser wants telco executive pay linked to better customer service and a new obligation to offer mobile coverage inside people’s homes.

  • Katina Curtis
TPG founder David Teoh.

Reclusive Teoh’s exit leaves door open for a radical TPG restructure

The circumstances leading to David Teoh’s abrupt departure remain just as mysterious as the way he led TPG - from inception to its merger with Vodafone Hutchison Australia.

  • Supratim Adhikari
Emergency Services Minister David Littleproud.

‘Disgusted’: Littleproud lashes telcos for failure to communicate

The Emergency Services Minister says telcos have failed to provide information on critical infrastructure to help fireys make “life and death decisions”.

  • Mike Foley
Stressed young man resting head on laptop.

Zoom out: Why video conferencing was most annoying to West Australians

If you found yourself swearing over lags and poor video quality while using Zoom and others, you were not alone. At times it was enough to make you want to switch on Netflix instead, with good reason.

  • Aja Styles

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