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The search engine company sacks a male engineer who sent an internal email criticising the company for "alienating conservatives" through its gender diversity programs and saying there are fewer women in tech positions because they "prefer jobs in social and artistic areas".
Topics: women, telecommunications, science-and-technology, united-states
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Topics: telecommunications, hillston-2675
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| UpdatedA western Riverina community is left scrambling for cash after a mobile phone outage, which lasted three days.
Topics: telecommunications, rural, hillston-2675
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When Kim Beveridge received a $191,000 phone bill from TeleChoice, he thought there'd been a mistake. Then they pursued him for the charges for over two years.
Topics: telecommunications, business-economics-and-finance, industry, information-and-communication, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedIf you're reading this because you've fallen victim to confusing charges on your phone bill for services you never signed up for, you're not alone. Here's some tips on how to get out of third-party billing.
Topics: telecommunications, australia
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Australian internet providers are in open conflict with the national broadband network, urging the wholesaler to drop its controversial charge for bandwidth.
Topics: information-and-communication, science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, telecommunications, industry, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, federal-government, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedOptus suspends operation with a third-party service provider after it found they were not complying with industry guidelines as part of a wider problem resulting in an estimated $20 million in charges in the past six months alone.
Topics: telecommunications, consumer-protection, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedAt first the weird-looking text messages went ignored. It wasn't until she was charged more than $100 that Yasmin Parry realised she'd been caught up in a legal practice costing consumers millions.
Topics: telecommunications, consumer-protection, business-economics-and-finance, consumer-finance, australia
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| UpdatedThe company installing the NBN has declared the "blame game" with internet service providers is unacceptable and has vowed to do better.
Topics: telecommunications, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedTelstra and Dodo customers are giving the telcos a bad rap in a CHOICE survey that found 62 per cent of Australians are experiencing slow speeds, disconnection and drop-out issues with their internet services.
Topics: consumer-protection, telecommunications, internet-technology, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedThousands of Australians are paying to watch a range of sexualised footage online in real time, but in 18 per cent of cases telcos aren't providing the data requested by police. Without that information, investigations come to an abrupt halt.
Topics: child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, internet-technology, telecommunications, philippines, asia, australia
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| UpdatedAdvocates say new legislation to guarantee access to broadband services for all premises should not imperil fixed line services.
Topics: internet-technology, telecommunications, rural, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000, toowoomba-4350, bundaberg-4670, rockhampton-4700, mackay-4740, longreach-4730, mount-isa-4825, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedLast week somebody successfully ported Tracey Holmes's number without her permission. What ensued was a sleepless night wondering where her number had gone, what was being done with it and what the ultimate cost was going to be.
Topics: mobile-phones, telecommunications, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAustralia's consumer watchdog is calling for volunteers to sign up to a broadband speed testing program in an effort to expose the 'real world' speeds provided to households and businesses connecting to the NBN.
Topics: internet-technology, telecommunications, australia
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| UpdatedUnions say contractors working for the National Broadband Network are taking shortcuts on in-home installations, blaming low pay and pressure on workers to complete jobs quickly.
Topics: telecommunications, internet-technology, australia
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| UpdatedThe Communications Union says Telstra workers have been "ambushed" after the telco confirms 1,400 jobs will be cut within Australia.
Topics: industry, telecommunications, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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Foxtel launches another case in the Federal Court to have the piracy streaming websites Yes Movies, Los Movies, Watch Series and Project Free TV blocked in Australia.
Topics: piracy, computers-and-technology, law-crime-and-justice, business-economics-and-finance, industry, telecommunications, company-news, australia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government will not allow civil litigants to access metadata stored by telecommunication companies after a backlash from lawyers and privacy advocates.
Topics: internet-technology, telecommunications, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedTelstra shares plunge nearly 7 per cent to the lowest in nearly five years, after rival TPG Telecom says it will spent around $1.9 billion on a building a new 4G mobile phone network.
Topics: telecommunications, stockmarket, mobile-phones, australia
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| UpdatedNBN Co vows to continue targeting leakers despite a powerful Senate committee expressing concern that staff were targeted after a police raid on then-senator Stephen Conroy's office.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, police, telecommunications, parliament, australia, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedA Senate committee rules the AFP has to give back thousands of documents seized from former senator Stephen Conroy last year.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-parliament, parliament, law-crime-and-justice, telecommunications, canberra-2600, australia
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Engineering and contracting firm Downer EDI has offered to take over cleaning and catering services provider Spotless for $1.15 a share, or around $1.27 billion. But does the deal make sense?
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, industry, hospitality, markets, multinationals, takeovers, telecommunications, electricity-energy-and-utilities, australia, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedPNG's Telecommunication Workers Union is poised to hold a nationwide strike action against the government over plans to merge three state-owned communication companies.
Topics: telecommunications, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA failure of the National Broadband Network's Sky Muster satellite leaves about 65,000 consumers across regional, rural and remote Australia without internet access just one day before a secondary satellite is decommissioned.
Topics: internet-technology, telecommunications, regional, rural, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedThe Papua New Guinea government is continuing its plan to merge three state-owned communication companies despite a protest by telecommunication workers.
Topics: telecommunications, pacific, papua-new-guinea