Telstra has informed the Australian Stock Exchange that it is revising downward by $400 million its FY20 income guidance following the release of the NBN Co's corporate plan for 2020-23 last week.

Hobart has the fastest broadband speeds of Australia’s capital cities but Perth lags well behind with the country’s slowest Internet speeds, according to an analysis of over 14,800 broadband speed tests between July 2018 and July this year.

New Zealand telco Spark has changed its plan for coverage of the Rugby World Cup tournament after it became apparent that some areas of the country would face difficulties in streaming the content due to a lack of bandwidth. The new plan will involve TVNZ broadcasting all the games, and not a select number as originally planned.

Tech industry association CompTIA has announced its first ANZ Channel Community Executive Council (EC) members in New Zealand.

Australia continues to be a malware target, with 9.2 million malware detections in the first half of 2019 - with malicious URLs also proving a popular form of attack, as the number of times a malicious URL was accessed reached 8.9 million, according to a new global security report.

Five startups will take part in the University of South Australia’s second Venture Catalyst Space program supported by the South Australian Government’s Space Innovation Fund through its Innovation & Collaboration Centre (ICC).

Optus has unveiled CX Academy and a program for its employees designed to improve customer experience and services outcomes.

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