Telcos ready for bushfire season with Disaster Roaming
Concerns of a severe bushfire season and other disasters have led telcos to come together for an emergency roaming technology that will let you temporarily jump telcos to stay connected.
Telcos news & reviews
Suppliers of telecommunications and mobile access across the country (and the world), Australia's telcos are responsible for a massive quantity of news, including feature additions, price changes, and even the odd outage here and there, too.
Expect coverage on Australia's big three telcos -- Telstra, Optus, and Vodafone -- as well as news from the little MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) as well.
Latest in telcos
Vodafone adds four-year plans in time for pricey phones
Somewhere between AI raising the cost of tech and the prices going up on everything else, mobiles are now more costly, so Vodafone has come up with a solution: pay a plan for longer.
ACCC to investigate tower sharing to improve mobile use
Mobile reception in rural Australia might just improve if an investigation by the ACCC suggests Australians can jump from one network to the other, but has it come too late?
Apple Watch for Kids reviewed: parents will love it
Staying connected with your kids without giving them a phone just got a little easier with Apple Watch for Kids. Expensive, sure, but also easier.
Telstra powers on satellite beyond texts
Satellite capabilities in select phones on Telstra will now do more than simply text. They’ll also let you use maps, weather, and WhatsApp, too.
What happened during the 2026 Telstra outage?
A day Telstra would likely rather forget, a serious issue took out the country’s biggest telco one morning, leaving it difficult to connect to until much later. What happened?
Telstra network goes down across Australia
Proving it can happen to any telco, the biggest network has gone down leaving potentially millions without mobile services.
New mobile maps official as ACMA’s standard kicks in
Nearly one million square kilometres have been removed from Telstra’s mobile reception maps, as the government aims to keep telcos honest.
Telstra, Ericsson team for 6G research
Your phone may well be fast and 5G, but the next network standard is on the way, and it will come with AI baked in, as Telstra talks up what’s to come.
End-to-end encryption coming for RCS, so where is RCS in Australia?
iPhone and Android customers should be able to talk in a messaging system not unlike Apple Messages, complete with security for their texts. So where is RCS in Australia?
