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• Maybe a 20-year government contract for landlines and payphones was a bad idea, audit suggests

  A decades-long contract signed with Telstra to deliver standard ​telephone services and maintain payphones does not reflect value for money principles, according to an Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) report released today.

• NBN inquiry calls for more fibre, independent audit

  A parliamentary inquiry into the rollout of the NBN has called on the government to ensure complete that as much as possible of the remaining fixed-line network is completed using fibre to the curb (FTTC) or fibre to the premises (FTTP).

• In banks we trust. Why not fintechs?

  Will mandatory open data lead to a mass exodus of customers from the Big Four? It could all come down to one thing.

• Optus combines Massive MIMO, 3CC Carrier Aggregation

  Optus has revealed details of a live trial that combined Massive MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) and 3CC Carrier Aggregation technologies.

• Government rejects call to suspend Centrelink ‘robo-debt’ system

  The federal government has rejected a central recommendation of a parliamentary inquiry that scrutinised an automated data-matching program intended to recover purported overpayments of welfare benefits.

• Vodafone takes ‘significant step towards 5G’

  Vodafone announced today that it had conducted its first field demonstration of Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) using a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) band.

• Informatica brings AI to GDPR compliance, data governance

  Companies that are scrambling to comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have a new tool to consider: Informatica's Compliance Data Lake, unveiled this week at the Strata Data Conference in New York.

• In Equifax data breach, three hard lessons in risk

  How much security risk can an organization accept before it’s on very thin ice? The equation is simple: decide how much money it will take to reduce the risk, and how much more money an organization will earn by accepting that risk. Equifax presumably decided that accepting a large amount of risk, in hopes of making a larger amount of money, was a good gamble. In the case of the massive data breach, Equifax lost that gamble badly.

• Canonical's eyes are on IoT

  Canonical executive vice president Mike Bell talks to Network World about the open source software company's move to take its place in enterprise IoT.

• Zoho Cliq is the latest group chat tool to rival Slack and Microsoft Teams

  The cloud software provider’s team messenger integrates with its suite of sales and office productivity apps.