The ACCC has released submissions received in response to the first round of its review of NBN Co's special access undertaking, and submitters are united in warning that it could result in NBN Co's Wholesale Broadband Agreement transcending legislation and the powers of the ACCC.

The ACCC's preferred option for pricing the mobile terminating access service (MTAS) is a bill and keep (BAK) model, but none of the mobile network operators supports this.

The worldwide explosion in smartphone sales is well and truly emulated in Australia, with already more mobile phone subscribers than people, and with all handsets including smartphones, now standing at around six million.

In the wake of its much publicised network problems earlier this year VHA lost 18,000 mobile services in the three months to 31 March leaving it with 7.216m, 43 percent prepaid.

Optus has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to upgrade the core of its mobile network to the Evolved Packet Core.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has appointed Indian IT outsourcing specialist Tech Mahindra to take responsibility for the running and operations of the company's IT systems, replacing a number of providers that included Ericsson and IBM.

Roy Morgan Research has revealed that customers of Virgin Mobile and VHA brand '3' are more satisfied with the service that they were receiving from their mobile provider than customers of other telcos -- although the nation's biggest telco Telstra is catching up fast.

Troubled telco VHA has given the strongest signal so far that it intends to be a fixed-line player in the new fibre National Broadband Network reality, noting this afternoon that it was seeking to kick off trials on NBN fibre infrastructure in the second half of 2011.

In scale and tone, Paul O'Sullivan's reluctance to enter the limelight of the Australian telecommunications industry is currently only matched by one man: VHA chief executive Nigel Dews.

Chinese giant Huawei beat European rivals Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson to win VHA's mammoth network replacement project, the mobile telco said this afternoon -- as well as compatriot ZTE -- in a hard-fought tender process which lasted throughout most of 2010.