Australia's Communications and Media Authority, ACMA, has announced consultations on 5G spectrum auction arrangements as it prepares to auction spectrum in the 3.6GHz later this year. The ACMA Draft 2018-22 Five Year Spectrum Outlook is now available, and invites you to have your say before 15 June 2018

All of Huawei's new 2018 smartphones are now available to buy in Australia, including Huawei P20 Pro, P20, Nova 3e and Nova 2lite, with the top-end P20 series and Porsche Design Mate RS series real challengers to everyone else's flagships.

A US Congress committee has agreed to uphold the sanctions imposed by the US Commerce Department on Chinese telecommunications vendor ZTE, in what appears to be a snub to US President Donald Trump.

Researchers at Flinders University claim they have found that wearable technology, such as smart watches, and also smartphone apps, could help improve the treatment of mental health disorders by increasing the chances of early detection.

Australian consumers are more trusting about the use of their personal information by companies - particularly those offering digital goods and services - which are transparent about what they do with their data, according to a newly released privacy study.

Journalists at Fairfax Media, one of them a senior investigative scribe, appear to have got caught up in a bid to blackball the Chinese telecommunications company ZTEover a small bribe it paid in Benin in 2005 and 2006 to secure a telecommunications contract.

After initially claiming that a fine imposed on it by the Indian anti-trust watchdog raised only "narrow concerns", Google has now changed tack and is alleging that the ruling would cause it "irreparable reputational loss".

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