The nation's largest telcos, Telstra and Optus, have welcomed the Australian Labor Party's election promise to facilitate a new national fibre broadband network with up to AU$4.7 billion in funding, ...

Australian telco Optus has named a new chief technology officer as it looks to move on from last year's deadly network outage ...

Vodafone and Optus are offering low-cost mobile broadband contracts with high download limits this Christmas, but Telstra says its competitors' networks are still "too slow" and offer poor coverage.

Whatever happened to charging us for the data we use? Optus has launched a new prepaid option for its wireless broadband service, but with the unusual proviso that the data used will be charged in ...

(Reuters) - Australian telecom watchdog has fined Optus A$12 million ($7.99 million) for failing to provide emergency call services to thousands during a nationwide outage last year, the regulator ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge fined telecommunications giant Optus 100 million Australian dollars ($66 million) Wednesday for unconscionable conduct selling services to hundreds of ...