Optus' wholesale business has announced the launch of a home wireless broadband solution for mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), which are now able to offer the service to their own customers.

If you live in a rental house or in regional Australia, getting broadband can be a struggle at best. Optus is hoping to change that with its Home Wireless Broadband and a deal offering 50GB for AU$70.

The nation's number two telco Optus today said it would reduce its prepaid wireless broadband quotas as of 24 November, saying the former quotas were only an initial offer. The quota for the $30 plan ...

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 ...

Optus is pushing to cut your cables, announcing aggressively priced home wireless broadband solutions it says are aimed at replacing fixed line connections. Optus new home wireless broadband plans use ...

Australia’s fixed-wireless access (FWA) market is entering a transformative phase as national operators ramp up investment in wireless-driven broadband. Once primarily a rural connectivity solution, ...

Optus will launch a 5G fixed wireless service in early 2019, the telco announced today. The launch of the service in “key metro areas” will be the beginning of the telco’s rollout of technology based ...

Optus today said that it had successfully made a 5G data call on 60MHz of its 3.5GHz spectrum. The telco said the call, made from a site in the Canberra suburb of Dickson, used commercial 5G radio ...

Millions of Australians lost access to mobile and internet networks on Wednesday after the country’s second-largest telecommunications company Optus experienced an outage. The unexplained outages in ...

ACCC initiates court action against Optus over NBN disconnection claims The competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court ...

SYDNEY, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Australia said on Thursday it would investigate an outage at telco Optus that cut off internet and phone connections to nearly half of its population, causing widespread ...

Australia's privacy regulator sues Optus over 2022 data breach An Australian regulator has sued Optus, alleging the Singapore Telecommunications-owned carrier breached privacy laws during a 2022 cyber ...