The weekday briefing on Australian telecommunications, data centres and AI infrastructure.
Today's briefing
Thursday 5 November 2026
Goodman and Digital Realty have offered A$715m for up to 9.9 per cent of NextDC at A$9.50 a share, a 45.5 per cent premium to its closing price after the October share price collapse.
Telstra blamed a MessageBank fault for floods of false missed call texts on Wednesday 4 November 2026, saying Triple Zero was unaffected.
Aussie Broadband is moving about 350,000 AGL telco services onto its platforms.
Goodman Group and Digital Realty have launched an after-market offer at A$9.50 a share for up to 9.9 per cent of NextDC, a 45.5 per cent premium to its closing price, after the data centre operator's share price collapse in October.
SpinTel has paid a penalty after the ACMA found it emailed more than 32,000 marketing messages without consent. It has also signed a three-year enforceable undertaking.
Dodo has launched an "infinity mobile plan" at $19 a month, available only to customers who also have one of its NBN services. Data is unlimited but held to a permanent 50Mbps cap on the Optus network.
The ACMA wants sender ID applicants to pay an annual fee that would cover the Register's running costs from the 2027–28 financial year. Comment is open until Friday 4 December 2026.
Telstra customers received waves of missed call and voicemail texts, some up to 100, for calls that never happened on Wednesday 4 November 2026. The telco said a MessageBank fault was to blame, that it was fixed, and that Triple Zero, voice calls and mobile data were unaffected.
Telstra is listed as in beta for RCS on iPhone, with end-to-end encrypted messaging part of the test, in the iOS 27.3 beta 1 carrier bundles. No other Australian carrier has any RCS status on the tracker.
Aussie Broadband is shifting about 350,000 broadband and mobile services it took over from AGL's telecommunications arm, and gains a five-year marketing arrangement that opens AGL's customer base to it.
A $5.9 million fixed wireless project along the Narromine Cobar corridor is now giving around 900 homes and businesses near five towns an alternative to satellite. The NSW Government contributed $5.3 million, with nbn as delivery partner.
NBN Co told TechRadar it is confident the network can handle demand for the 212GB Grand Theft Auto VI, with preloading expected to prevent a peak-hour record but possibly lift total volume over 7 to 8 days.
ZTE is reportedly negotiating a US$5.6 billion joint venture for its mainstream smartphone business, involving a Shanghai state-owned enterprise. ZTE makes handsets sold under the Telstra and Optus brands, according to ChannelNews.
Citi says September web traffic and app downloads point to upside risks for Superloop and Aussie Broadband subscriber forecasts, and it has reiterated its buy rating on Telstra.
Anthropic's Australian subsidiary has signed lease documentation with Dexus-backed Australian Data Centres for the first stage of a Queensland campus, which is also the subject of a council application by Zerra DC and a local petition.
Turner & Townsend's 2026 Data Centre Construction Index puts Melbourne at $10.58 per watt and Sydney at $10.74, both well under Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong. The firm cautions that Australia should not be seen as a low-cost market.
Telstra has switched on the Perth-Sydney route of its Aura Network, linking Western Australia to the eastern states by high-capacity fibre. A Telstra-commissioned Oxford Economics study estimates the economic effect of Aura routes out to FY2040.