Up to 3 million Australians – mostly in rural and regional Australia - will miss out on getting access to critical 5G technology by 2023 because of the Australian Government’s 5G ban on China’s Huawei in Australia - and come at a cost to the national economy of US$8.2 billion in lost GDP gains, according to UK based global forecasting and quantitative analysis firm Oxford Economics.

South Australian electricity distributor SA Power Networks has developed a digital strategy program that incorporates the Microsoft 365 productivity cloud for a workplace transformation that mitigates siloed operations across a vast geographical area of the State.

Optus has successfully made an end-to-end 5G video test call while simultaneously streaming video content on a 4G device with the Ericsson Spectrum Sharing technology.

Global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health, including private equity and corporate venture capital, declined in 2019 with US$8.9 billion raised in 615 deals, a 6% drop compared to US$9.5 billion in 698 deals in 2018, according to a new report.

In a year where Fortnite dominated the data channels, Coomera on the Gold Coast was king of the downloads in 2019, according to Telstra.

Global digital money transfer transaction volume will reach 2 billion by 2024, up from 1.1 billion in 2019, according to a new report.

Coming to Australia soon is Samsung's enterprise enhanced business smartphone, with Microsoft Teams "walkie-talkie" capability, a rugged design, programmable buttons, IP68-rating, removable battery and more.

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