Correspondent
Technology correspondent
Jade Chen covers gadgets and platforms Australian readers live with. Spec-sheet fluent. Chatbot morality plays are someone else’s desk.
Optus is pushing higher-capacity fixed-wireless cells into Tasmanian blackout corridors where NBN towers and storm damage still knock households offline, pairing diesel-backed sites with faster antenna swaps for dairy and forestry roads.
Telstra is widening Starlink Enterprise backhaul trials across western Queensland outage corridors while OneWeb LEO conversions stay paused, giving remote towers a second satellite path when fibre or microwave links fail during storm season.