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‘Water Got In’: Tasmania’s Basslink Cable Repairs Won’t Finish Til June
With Tasmania’s internet still operating at much-reduced capacity, all eyes have been on Basslink to find the fault in the main undersea cable connecting the island to the Australian mainland. That problem has now been found, but full repairs are almost three months away from completion.
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TPG’s Tasmania Customers Now Have Better Internet Speed, After Government Intervention
It’s been on the cards since Basslink, the power / data carrying cable that connects Tasmania to mainland Australia, was damaged in late December last year. Yet, TPG was happy to leave customers with degraded internet, potentially for months, until intervention from the Tasmanian government forced the ISP’s hand.
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Vodafone And TPG Have Teamed Up In A $1bn Network Sharing Deal
Vodafone is Australia’s third largest mobile telco, trailing stronger competitors Optus and Telstra. TPG is a telecommunications company with a strong national data network and plenty of existing high-speed infrastructure. The two have teamed up in a $1 billion deal that sees TPG’s fibre network carrying Vodafone mobile network traffic, and it might be the…
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TPG Has Made iiNet Head David Buckingham Redundant: Report
With the ACCC recently giving TPG the thumbs-up to add internet service provider iiNet to its collective consciousness, the telco has wasted little time tidying up shop. First by canning Fetch TV and now, going by reports, it’s made iiNet CEO David Buckingham redundant.