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5G small cell antenna mounted on a city street pole in Perth CBD, sandstone office buildings in background, harsh midday sun, pedestrians blurred below, no logos or readable text

Telstra Opens mmWave 5G Layer On Perth CBD Small Cells Before Summer Events

Telstra has switched on millimetre-wave 5G small cells across parts of the Perth CBD, aiming to absorb concert and sports crowds before the summer event calendar fills.

Jade Chen Oct 11, 2026

Stacked shipping containers at Port Botany with straddle carriers in motion, grey morning haze, no logos or readable text

WiseTech Freight API Outage Snarls Sydney Customs Brokers For Six Hours

WiseTech Global’s CargoWise API was offline for roughly six hours overnight, leaving Sydney customs brokers unable to lodge entries before the Monday container peak.

Jade Chen Oct 11, 2026

Australian parliamentary committee hearing room with empty witness table, microphones and water glasses, overhead fluorescent lighting, no logos or readable text

Kwon Tells Senate OpenAI Delayed Medicare Crawl Disclosure Until After Marles Meeting

OpenAI’s chief strategy officer told a Senate probe the company emailed a generic government inbox about a Medicare site crawl while ministers were still in the dark.

Jade Chen Oct 10, 2026

Technicians in high-visibility vests working beside a buried fibre conduit trench in red desert scrub near a highway, harsh midday sun, no logos or readable text

Telstra Switches On Perth-Sydney Aura Fibre Route as Ciena Hits 1.6 Tb/s on Live Network

Telstra activated its Perth–Sydney Aura fibre corridor this week, adding the longest span in a $1.8 billion network build as Ciena demonstrated 1.6 terabits per second on the Melbourne–Sydney leg.

Jade Chen Oct 9, 2026

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Wall Street Chip Selloff Weighs on ASX Tech Names Ahead of Sydney Open

A sharp drop in US semiconductor stocks set up a weak lead for ASX technology companies on Friday, with Wisetech, Xero and NEXTDC among the names traders marked down after Nvidia and Broadcom fell more than 3 percent overnight.

Jade Chen Oct 8, 2026

Interior of a hyperscale data centre aisle with server racks and blue LED status lights, overhead cable trays and chilled air vents, no logos or readable text

Smith Papers Reveal Anthropic Briefed on Unpublished Data-Centre Guardrails Before Memorandum

Documents released under FOI show Anthropic received a draft of the government’s data-centre expectations while Canberra was negotiating the Claude maker’s Australian memorandum.

Jade Chen Oct 7, 2026