Victoria has announced it will start rolling out smart metering technology via energy distributors by the end of this year.
Electricity utility Country Energy said this week that the due date for completion of its smart metering roll-out was 2017, despite plans to reveal the locations of a trial of the technology with IBM in the next two weeks.
M2 Telecommunications announced today it will take over People Telecom in a combined stock and cash deal.
Wireless telco Unwired has shortened its list to three potential hardware suppliers for its WiMax network roll-out, which will see hundreds of base stations light up in the next 12 months to bring wireless broadband to 13 million Australians.
Transfield Services is making 170 staff who work on its Telecom New Zealand contract redundant because it is losing money on the work it does for the telco.
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The obvious candidates for consolidation in Australia's telecommunications sector are the 170 internet service providers that are scratching to make a living, but others include Dodo, M8 Telecom, Macquarie Telecom and Eftel.
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