OPTUS: Warning that 5G will challenge data retention regime
CORAL SEA CABLE: Lands in PNG, Solomon Islands
HUAWEI: UK review green lights 5G network participation
ACMA
Flags a future for outcomes and databased regulation
17 July 2019 What’s happening today in ANZ telecoms ISSUE 5917
Two trials of HFC technology by NBN Co using the DOCSIS 3.1 standard have achieved the “holy grail” objective of one gigabit upload and download speeds.
NBN Co announced overnight that an in- ield trial in Templestowe, Victoria achieved trial download speeds of 994Mbps, in co-existence with legacy usage.
A separate lab test with DOCSIS 3.1 demonstrated trial upload speeds of 988Mbps.
The tests were facilitated by NBN Co’s HFC supplier Commscope, which acquired Arris in April.
The in- ield trial used a non-RSP connected layer 2 service in the home of the Templestowe NBN customer, while a direct link was established between the home and the local point of interconnect in North Balwyn.
Signi icantly the test result was achieved on a node co-existing with the legacy Telstra and Foxtel services. The required expanded spectrum was enabled by a progressive bandpass ilter swap program.
“The potential development of an ultra-fast speed tier offering on the NBN Co HFC network would require advanced technical work, consultation with retailers and vendors and shifts in market dynamics. Analysis of data growth suggests that downstream traf ic demand is increasing faster than upstream traf ic, suggesting that customers may prefer additional downstream performance. These trials allowed NBN to gather important new insights for the work that is required to support this potential market dynamic,” NBN Co said.
“This HFC gigabit trial using DOCSIS 3.1 is part of an ongoing program of work by
NBN Co’s technology of ice to plan future upgrade paths on its access networks. Previous trials and demonstrations have included G.FAST and XG.FAST for FTTN/B/C,
NGPON2 and XGS PON for FTTP, and new technology for the transit and wireless networks.,” it added.
NBN Co CTO Ray Owen said: “This is an important day for NBN. It shows how a speci ic technology – HFC – is evolving to meet customer demand for greater capacity from their broadband connection over time. It’s good news for both residential and business customers using HFC as we have demonstrated both the wholesale download and upload capacity of this technology. As we work to complete our network rollout, we’re constantly looking at what’s over the horizon for all of our technology assets and how we can evolve our network as demand grows.”

Commscope senior vice president and segment leader, Network & Cloud Kevin
Keefe added: “NBN Co belongs to an elite tier of global service providers who have begun pioneering DOCSIS 3.1 at scale, further demonstrating the potential of HFC networks. Data use globally is increasing and networks must innovate to meet this increasing demand. DOCSIS 3.1 provides a scalable framework that enables networks like NBN Co to deliver better subscriber experiences, reliably and cost-effectively, for decades to come. It can increase network capacity and improve performance today, all while lowering operational costs and providing a path to game-changing 10 Gigabit speeds and services.”
NBN Co plans to deploy HFC to about 2.5m premises of its planned 11.7m total network. It has no plans to offer gigabit services over HFC for the moment but, nevertheless, is progressively swapping out DOCSIS 3.0 capability for 3.1 capability across the network. With both Telstra and eventually Foxtel vacating the network, NBN Co will also have the entire spectrum of HFC to itself within a matter of years.
Grahame Lynch
Optus has warned that new low-latency 5G machine-to-machine applications and IoT networks could challenge the current data retention regime, both in terms of infrastructure requirements but also the future cost and complexity of the scheme.
In a response to the current Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security review of mandatory data retention, Optus recommended that the PJCIS commission a report from the department of icials on whether data retention obligations should be modi ied as they apply to low latency 5G machine-to-machine services.
It said the administration guidance developed at the commencement of the scheme had been useful for the existing set of carriage services and technologies, but questioned whether it would still be relevant for the next generation of services.
“The emerging generation of technology and applications which Australian carriers and application providers are now investing in, however, were not full envisaged or scoped in 2016-17. They will throw up challenges which should be actively managed by relevant policy-makers and decision-makers,” Optus said.
Optus also told the committee that it was a “substantial on-going operational and administrative task” to maintain the current data retention scheme and compliance framework.
“From Optus' perspective as a carrier and carriage service provider with embedded compliance processes and systems which are designed to meet current obligations, any non-trivial change to the mandated data set or key legislative settings will impose substantial additional compliance costs and process burdens,” it said.
As a result, Optus said it did not support any substantial change to the mandated data retention data set or key legislative settings unless there is a demonstrable law enforcement or national security imperative to do so.
However, as previously reported in CommsDay, law enforcement agencies have already told the PJCIS inquiry that they want metadata retention laws to be beefed up to deal with the challenges presented by the rise of OTT messaging applications and 5G.
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For example, a submission from the WA Police expresses concerns that the arrival of
5G and other new technologies may result in the creation of metadata that is not covered under the scheme and would not be retained by telecommunications providers.
Geoff Long
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has lagged a move towards new modes of regulation away from what it describes as traditional models such as coregulation and rules-based regulation as it seeks to grasp the complexities of the modern digital age.
In a paper submitted to an international regulatory event held in Vanuatu last week,
ACMA particularly emphasises the opportunity to embrace a concept known as
“outcomes-based regulation”, which is acknowledged in the ield as sometimes risky and dif icult for stakeholders to embrace.
“Digital transformation and the emergence of new technologies and business models is challenging our existing regulatory ecosystem on a domestic and global scale,”
ACMA told the ITU’s Global Symposium of Regulators in Port Vila.
“Regulatory approaches, such as exclusively rules-based regulation, may lack the agility in responding to this dynamic environment. Collaborative and adaptive regulatory approaches which are focused on outputs, such as outcomes-based or principlesbased frameworks, may provide a more contemporary and targeted way of addressing some of these challenges across different platforms,” ACMA said.
The regulator said the rise of phenomena such as global digital platforms and increasing consumer mistrust are undermining the effectiveness of traditional regulatory approaches such as “rules-based” regulation and “co-regulation,” the latter manifesting in Australia through the role that Communications Alliance plays in de ining and applying technical regulation that is subject to ACMA sign-off.
“Outcomes-based regulation is one regulatory option which may provide alternative solutions to these regulatory challenges. By focusing on the outcomes or objectives that must be achieved, without prescribing the means of doing so, both regulators and regulated entities are better placed to adapt to changing environments, while allowing for innovative regulatory approaches to emerge organically,” the paper said.
Outcomes-based regulation can be best described as a prescription as to what has to be achieved as opposed to how it will be done. A recent Deloittes paper offers an example for the drone sector: rules-based regulation would de ine the lying height or power limit of a drone, while outcomes-based regulation would instead set the broader objective that the operation of drones could not endanger human life and allow more lexibility in how that occurs. It is viewed as pro-innovation, especially where the regulated activity crosses a number of different regulatory jurisdictions.
However, outcomes-based regulation also has its risks, speci ically in the ield of unintended consequences. One often-cited example in the regulatory literature is that of the American requirement that 85% of children should not be able to open drug packaging in ive minutes, which resulted in between 40% and 70% of senior citizens also not able to open the packaging.
The ACMA paper also envisages other new forms of regulatory adventurism.
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“The ACMA is also actively monitoring the development and use of new regulatory tools that can provide industry with greater levels of lexibility and facilitate experimentation within current regulatory frameworks. We see bene it in examining successful examples of regulatory sandboxes, to see if this concept could have applicability in some aspects of the communications portfolio, such as spectrum management.”
A regulatory “sandbox” effectively isolates a speci ic area of activity from overall regulation.
“Evidence-based data-driven regulation is a key priority for the ACMA as articulated in our corporate plan. By employing data science, big data, Al, Internet of Things, and predictive analytics, data-driven regulation has the potential to improve regulatory ef iciency and decision making, allowing for regulation to identify and respond quickly to harms built on a more robust evidence base moving away from one-size- its-all models.”
ACMA has already moved some way beyond its legacy approach.
The 2016-17 review of ACMA, the recommendations of which were accepted by the government, said that the agency should move to a
“principles-based” approach, for example.
ACMA was represented at the Port Vila event by its chair, Nerida O’Loughlin. The annual GSR is seen as the peak ITU venue for the heads of national comms regulators, as opposed to departments or ministers, to meet and network.
Grahame Lynch
Vocus has announced that its 4,700km Coral Sea Cable has now been connected at landing sites in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Vocus has been contracted to construct the system as part of a joint venture with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Alcatel Submarine Networks, Papua New Guinea Data Co and Solomon
Submarine Cable. When complete, the project will provide internet connectivity to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands via Sydney.
A ceremony to mark the landing took place on Monday, where a symbolic
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare,
Acting Australian High Commissioner Sally-Anne Vincent handover of a “golden buoy” marked the beginning of work to lay the cable between Honiara and Sydney.
Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogavare, acting Australian High Commissioner Sally
-Anne Vincent, senior government of icials and company representatives attended the ceremony.
Vocus enterprise and government CEO Andrew Wildblood said the project was making excellent progress. “This is a large scale and complex submarine cable build and
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our team, together with our partners, are doing a great job,” he said.
Wildblood added that Vocus was proud of its role building critical infrastructure for the people, businesses and communities of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
“Our progress to date is testament to the expertise in ibre networks and large-scale project management we have at Vocus, and the strong relationships we have with the
Australian Government agencies and stakeholders involved,” he noted.
Prior to the ceremony, of icials including Solomon Islands deputy PM John
Maneniaru and acting High Commissioner Vincent toured ASN’s cable-laying ship the
Ile de Breha on Friday.
The cables were loaded on the marine vessel on April 17 after manufacture in
France.
Of icials were briefed on how the undersea ibre optic cable will be laid along the route and shown the 42 repeaters that will boost the signal of the cable network.
The four ibre-pair system will deliver a minimum of 20 Tbps capacity to Papua New
Guinea and Solomon Islands and have a total capacity of 40 Tbps. Vocus said this will signi icantly augment Papua New Guinea’s existing submarine cable capacity.
The Solomon Islands currently relies solely on satellite for its international voice and data communications.
The project also includes a 730km submarine cable system connecting Honiara to
Auki (Malaita Island), Noro (New Georgia Island) and Taro Island.
Monica O’Shea
Huawei Australia has welcomed a UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee inding that there are no technical grounds to completely ban the use of Huawei equipment in the nation's 5G networks.
The committee's Telecoms Supply Chain Review concluded that it found no evidence that a complete ban would “constitute a proportionate response to the potential security threat found by foreign suppliers.”
But the committee does recommend that Huawei equipment be excluded from the core of 5G networks – something that most of the UK's telcos are already doing voluntarily.
When making its decision to fully exclude Huawei equipment from Australian 5G rollouts, the Australian government revealed it has come to the conclusion that there will be far less distinction from core and non-core elements of 5G networks compared to previous mobile generations.
But the UK committee said it had received unanimous and clear advice that there will still be a distinction between the core and non-core parts.
The committee noted that geography will make an impact on 5G, and the very different geographies of the UK and Australia mean that the two nations may have exactly the same technical understanding but come to very different conclusions about the distinction between core and non-core components.
The committee has also addressed the recent report from the independent Huawei
Cyber Security Evaluation Centre Oversight Board in the UK which identi ied
“signi icant technical issues.. in Huawei's engineering processes.” The oversight board
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last year downgraded its level of assurance in the integrity of Huawei equipment that it can offer the UK government.
Based on input from industry and academia into the indings of the board, the committee concluded that “it is clear that Huawei must improve the standard of its cybersecurity.” The committee recommended that the government monitor Huawei's response to the issues raised by the oversight board and be prepared to restrict the use of
Huawei equipment if progress is unsatisfactory.
The committee has also recommended that the government evaluate whether to establish equivalent cyber security evaluation centres for other major 5G equipment providers.
Huawei Australia director of corporate and public affairs Jeremy Mitchell said the report includes lessons to be learned for the Australian government.
“Huawei complies with all the local laws and regulations wherever we operate and we have always been willing to engage with the Australian Government to answer any questions they may have or to work through any concerns,” he said.
“We remain open to talking with the Australian government and to taking whatever measures necessary to demonstrate the safety and security of our equipment – just as we are already doing in the UK and Europe.”
Dylan Bushell-Embling
Internet of Things provider NNNCo has inked an $8 million strategic investment agreement with energy and environment company Enzen Group that will also allow it to tap into Enzen Australia’s expertise in key sectors including energy, water and cities.
Enzen Group is headquartered in India with projects in over 20 geographies. Its
Australian head of ice is in Adelaide and it also has a presence in Victoria, New South
Wales, Western Australia and Queensland.
The $8 million that Enzen will invest into NNNCo will expand its low-power wide area network, enhance its enterprise software platform and expand its solution into various vertical markets. The deal would also enable NNNCo to leverage Enzen’s global reach.
“IoT has reached a tipping point and is primed to deliver its promise of productivity improvements, enhanced ef iciencies and more sustainable operations for businesses and entire industries,” said NNNCo CEO Rob Zagarella.
“More importantly, this investment and partnership with Enzen means we can now do that at scale, deliver useable data from in inite applications, and enable that data to be integrated into business operations for real-time optimisation,” he added.
Both parties will work together to meet industry demand for IoT-led digital transitions around Australia.
Enzen Australia CEO Dileep Viswanath said that NNNCo’s expertise in network and solutions in IoT would be an advantage for its own customers, providing a comprehen-
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sive end-to-end service.
“Ultimately this partnership will deliver substantive bene its through solutions that help enterprise and government to protect and sustain critical infrastructure, operate assets more ef iciently, and enable growth and integration of renewables in an economically sustainable model,” he added.
NEW NNNCO BOARD: Meanwhile, NNNCo has also revealed new board members including Enzen’s director for smart energy Ian Mcleod and Enzen Group’s inancial head
Rahul Choraria.
NNNCo founder David Spence – former CEO of Unwired and chair of Vocus Communications – will become NNNCo executive chair while former Vocus CFO Rick Correll will take on an executive director position.
“We believe there is a real opportunity for Australia to lead the world in the next wave of IoT digitisation and together with Enzen we will be at the forefront of that,”
Zagarella said.
Jessica Taulaga
Vodafone has become the latest telco to fall foul over an Australian Competition and
Consumer Commission investigations into its direct carrier billing services.
According to the ACCC, Vodafone offered a DCB service between January 2013 to
March 2018 and the service allowed customers to purchase digital content from third party developers for things such as games, ringtones and apps, with the charge automatically applied to the customers’ mobile accounts.
“Through this service, thousands of Vodafone customers ended up being charged for content that they did not want or need, and were completely unaware that they had purchased,” said ACCC chairman Rod Sims.
Vodafone has agreed to contact and refund impacted consumers but was not ined.
Both Telstra and Optus have previously been hit with a $10 million penalty for misleading customers through similar direct billing services.
“We never want to see any customer charged for a service they don’t want,” a Vodafone spokesperson told CommsDay. “We accept that some of our customers were provided with Direct Carrier Billing services they did not want, and we’ve taken steps to prevent that happening again.”
“We apologise to our customers who were affected and will ensure they are noti ied about our refund program. We will start contacting affected customers in the next few months and encourage them to contact Vodafone if they have questions or concerns.”
The ACCC urged Vodafone customers to check their mobile accounts if they believe unauthorised charges were applied.
Jessica Taulaga
IPTV provider Fetch TV has teamed up with the commercial free-to-air networks to introduce new virtual playlist channels for their streaming services.
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The new VPCs for 7Plus, 9Now, 10Play and SBS On Demand will be scheduled by the free to air networks based on time of day and content popularity.
Fetch TV partners with a number of service providers including Optus, TPG's iiNet group and Vocus (Dodo and iPrimus), and also sells its set-top boxes via retailers Harvey Norman, JB Hi Fi, Bing Lee and
The Good Guys.
Fetch TV CEO Scott Lorson said the new VPC format is designed to bridge the gap between linear and on-demand content. The dual navigation format allows content to be accessed via either electronic program guides or the broadcast video on demand app provided by the networks.
“Consumer viewing behaviours continue to evolve. Fetch is committed to working with our content partners to provide the best possible user experience, one that caters to the diverse content discovery preferences of Australian households,” he said.
Shows selected from an electronic program guide – whether the current listing or a future listing – will play via the video on demand apps, and will also feature fast forward and rewind functionality.
Lorson said the new model is designed to re lect the fact that electronic program guides remain the principal method of content discovery, but the broadcast video on demand model is growing in popularity.
Dylan Bushell-Embling
Telstra has revealed more than 5000 members of its reward program have earned 5 billion points in less than a month as it unveiled a host of new products for its store.
The Telstra Plus Rewards shop has been updated with 40 new devices including smart phones, iPads, Apple watches, Google Home, Foxtel remotes, modems, tablets and thermostats.
Telstra’s 5G smart phones have also been added to the list, with the LG V50 ThingQ
5G available for 553,000 points, Oppo Reno 5G for 380,000 points and Samsung Galaxy
S10 5G for 628,000 points.
A customer with a $100 monthly bill earning 10 points for every $1 would earn
12,000 points in a year, meaning it would take 33 years to earn enough points for an
Oppo 5G smartphone. But Telstra Plus members can also earn bonus points by adding a new service to the account or purchasing products using a combination of points and cash.
Telstra Plus members have spent 67 million points in the store since it opened on
June 25, with many of the 5 billion points still to be claimed.
Telstra customer value management executive Jana Kotatko said: “We know Aussies love tech, and to continue to thank our customers we are continuing to build our Rewards Store offering, with brands like Google, Samsung, Netgear and Amazon all being
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represented – there really is something for everyone.”
Monica O’Shea
Microsoft has launched a new partnership programme to highlight companies designated with the skills to support managed connectivity services to its Azure cloud platform, with Brisbane-headquartered Megaport one of the initial partners.
At the same time, its also added a virtual wide area networking product to its Azure networking portfolio.
Introduced at the Microsoft Inspire event in Las Vegas, the new partnership programme is designed to shine the spotlight on irms that have invested in the “people, best practices, operations and tools” to help enterprises deploy to Azure.
A total of eight irms – Megaport, BT, Tata Communications, Equinix, Intercloud, Dimension Data, IIJ and Aryaka – were named as initial members of the new Azure networking managed services provider partner programme.
According to Microsoft Azure networking corporate VP Yousef Khalidi, the new programme represents “a specialised set of MSPs for addressing enterprise cloud networking needs and challenges across all aspects of cloud and hybrid networking.”
“Their managed network services and offerings include various aspects of the application lifecycle including network architecture, planning, deployment, operations, maintenance, and optimisation,” Khalidi added.
One of the key components of the new managed services offering is a new virtual
WAN offering that Microsoft is bringing to market. With Azure Virtual WAN, Microsoft said enterprises would be able to leverage its Azure ‘regions’ as hubs to connect together regional branch of ices and users using virtual networking technologies. A virtual WAN device is used at each location to establish connectivity to Azure to form the enterprise WAN.
Further, Microsoft said enterprises will be able to use its global Azure network as part of their WAN architecture.
Tony Chan
The New Zealand government will pilot its Business Connect digital services platform ahead of its October launch.
The platform will enable businesses to access services from government and in time be able to apply, manage and track services.
NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern and small business minister Stuart Nash revealed details of the platform, which received NZ$7.1 million over two years in this year’s budget.
Christchurch-headquartered Datacom will build the cloud-based platform using
Pega System software. Datacom was chosen to build the platform after a competitive tender process.
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“Business Connect will enable businesses and government agencies to work together smarter. Our objective is to integrate access to multiple services through a single digital platform, and cut out repetitive paperwork,” said Ardern.
Ardern noted that the trial of the platform will initially involve three agencies: the
Minister for Primary Industries, the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment; and NZ Customs Service.
“The pilot agencies will allow the platform to be tested in a real world environment directly with businesses. Other central and local government agencies will gradually come on board over two years,” she added.
Jessica Taulaga
Services associated with Internet of Things deployment and projects led the worldwide spending in the market segment in 2019, edging out hardware sales, according to the latest data from the IDC worldwide semi-annual IoT spending guide.
For the year, IoT services – including traditional IT and installation services as well as ‘non-traditional’ device and operational services – reached US$94.6 billion, narrowly outpacing hardware sales of US$91.6 billion, which included US$74.8 billion in module and sensor sales.
While software sales for IoT was a distant third at US$39.3 billion, the segment is projected to be the fastest growing going forward with a compound annual growth rate of 14.4%, IDC said.
In terms of industries, IDC identi ied three verticals as the lead spenders on IoT – discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing and utilities. Together, the three industries will account for nearly 40% of the worldwide spend total in 2019, IDC added.
The primary IoT use case for the two manufacturing industries will be manufacturing operations and production asset management, while utilities industry spending will largely go toward smart grid for electricity and gas, IDC said. At the same time, the industries that will see the fastest CAGR over the ive-year forecast period are construction (15.0%), telecommunications (14.2%) and healthcare (13.6%).
Geographically, Asia Paci ic (excluding Japan) accounts for 35.7% of the global IoT market, followed by the US at 27.3% and Western Europe at 21.2%.
“Spending on IoT deployments continues its good momentum across Asia Paci ic
(excluding Japan) region this year,” said IDC IoT and telecommunications VP Hugh
Ujhazy. “While organisations are investing in hardware, software, and services to support their IoT initiatives, their next challenge is inding solutions that help them to manage, process, and analyse the data being generated from all these connected things.”
Within the Asia Paci ic, China dwarfed its neighbours in IoT spend, generating some
US$168.6 billion in sales, followed by South Korea and India well behind in second and third spot with spending of US$26.2 billion and US$20.6 billion respectively.
Tony Chan
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Verizon and Ericsson have conducted a proof-of-concept trial of a cloud-native wireless core in a live network environment.
According to Verizon, the PoC was the irst “container-based wireless evolved packet core technology deployment in a live network in the world” and introduces a much more ef icient way to delivery operational applications that run the network.
Container technology allows applications to be orchestrated and run on virtualised infrastructure, increasing agility and scalability for new services in 4G and 5G, the irms added.
“The pace of technological advancement is rapid and is exponentially increasing,” said Verizon technology development and planning VP Bill Stone. “By evolving our core network past simply using virtualised machines and instead changing our underlying software architecture to run on cloud-native technology, we are able to achieve new levels of operational automation, lexibility and adaptability.”
In Verizon’s case, the operator said going cloud-native will deliver the “operational autonomy” that is critical for a new generation of use cases, such as the massive number of Internet of Things devices anticipated to connect into wireless networks, augmented and virtual reality and edge computing.
“Those solutions will each require different combinations of network capabilities,” the operator said. “Cloud-native virtualisation, in combination with built-in arti icial intelligence and machine learning, will enable dynamic allocation of the appropriate resources and automated network con iguration changes – including the ability to scale up or scale down network function capacity – to provide the right service levels and network resources needed for each use case.”
Tony Chan
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CELEBRATES 700 MOBILE BASE STATIONS
The Federal Government marked the completion of 700 of its Mobile Blackspot Program base stations. Six hundred of these have been built by Telstra, with Optus and
Vodafone building the remaining sites. Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said:
“This milestone is an impressive achievement with the new coverage not only helping people to connect, but also signi icantly boosting our regional economy.” The news comes after CommsDay last week revealed an incoming brief for the Minister warned there were major delays in the launch of the 867 base stations funded under rounds one, two and three of the program.
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