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• Vodafone 4G is live

  Faster mobile data has arrived for Vodafone customers, with the telco announcing today it has switched on its 4G network in several cities across Australia.

• Vodafone in hot water with the ACMA

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued a formal warning to Vodafone for breaching the Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) code.

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  More than 10,000 sign up for Vodafone class action, says litigation fund

  More than 10,000 disgruntled ex-Vodafone customers have signed up for the class action against the telco, according to the company funding the case.

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  VHA still fighting to regain consumer trust

  A "combination of events" led to loss of consumer trust in the Vodafone brand, and regaining that trust is Vodafone Hutchison Australia's "key focus", Conning Fok Kin Ning, the chairman of part VHA owner Hutchison Australia, told his company's AGM today.

• Vodafone connects electric car in India

  Connected cars are becoming increasingly common around the world. In India, owners of Mahindra Reva's e2o electric car can now check their battery charge, control air-conditioning, lock or unlock doors and locate the nearest charging station from their smartphone.

• Vodafone 4G coming this June

  Vodafone Hutchison Australia will launch its 4G network starting this June, joining Telstra and Optus in offering high-speed LTE service, the third-place telco said today.

• Vodafone to add 750 jobs in Tasmania following government cash injection

  Vodafone will add 750 new jobs to its customer care centre in Tasmania, following $4.85 million in funding from the federal and Tasmanian governments.

• Class action against Vodafone to be filed by end of May

  A doctor who couldn’t receive calls at a hospital, a mother who couldn’t contact her child’s day care centre and a person who had her credit rating unfairly tarnished are among those who are joining a class action against Vodafone.

• Vodafone to be served class action over network issues

  Law firm Piper Alderman has announced plans to serve Vodafone with a class action following years of collecting customer experience stories through its online survey.

• More jobs axed as Optus restructures

  Optus has confirmed it will be making further redundancies this year, following jobs cuts totally nearly 1000 jobs in the 12 months to 31 December, 2012.

• Coles trials mobile 'contactless' payments

  Coles announced a trial of a mobile payments app that allows Coles MasterCard customers to pay using smartphones with near field communications (NFC) chips.

• New US$60m undersea cable between Aus and NZ to improve capacity

  Telstra, Vodafone and Telecom will build a new US$60 million submarine cable between Auckland and Sydney to provide greater capacity and connectivity for New Zealand.

• Nokia protests India tax raid

  Nokia said Tuesday it filed letters of objection in India to protest actions by the country's income tax authorities, including a raid on its factory, which it claimed ran counter to domestic laws and international standards.

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  Turnbull calls Conroy out on "bullying" behaviour

  Malcolm Turnbull has accused Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, of bullying the telecommunications industry, during an interview with ABC Radio on Friday morning.

• Vodafone restoring 2G, 3G services in flood-affected Queensland

  Vodafone is in the process of restoring 2G and 3G services to flood-affected suburbs in Queensland.