News and insights from Vocus
Posted on February 03, 2020
Vocus Managing Director & CEO Kevin Russell offered an opinion piece on the weekend of 1st February, which was featured in print and online in The Australian newspaper. In an industry where major reforms usually occur over years or even decades, a lot happened in a period of just 48 hours last…
Posted on January 17, 2020
While summertime is usually a festive season, the start of this year has been marked by devastating bushfires, the tragic loss of life, and heavy impacts to communities across the country. At Vocus, our thoughts are with those affected, and we’ve been heartened by the response we’ve seen from public…
Posted on December 12, 2019
Vocus has celebrated its successful completion of the Coral Sea Cable System for the Australian Government. After final testing, the 4,700 km Coral Sea Cable connecting Sydney, Honiara and Port Moresby, and the 730 km Solomon Islands Domestic Network, were accepted by the Department of Foreign Affairs…
Posted on December 05, 2019
Vocus today announced that it has entered a contract with the Barossa Joint Venture to build, operate and own a high-capacity submarine fibre optic network for the proposed Barossa offshore gas project in the Bonaparte Basin, to the north of Darwin. Group Managing Director and CEO of Vocus, Kevin Russell,…
Posted on October 28, 2019
Vocus Group, Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, has today announced a solid step forward in its Future State program to simplify, modernise and consolidate its multiple legacy networks. Vocus Group CEO, Kevin Russell, said “Our goal is to deliver brilliant simplicity to…
Posted on October 10, 2019
In his speech to the CommsDay Melbourne Congress, Vocus Group Managing Director/CEO Kevin Russell called for the Government to issue NBN with a new Statement of Expectations to provide it with clear policy objectives in Enterprise - an updated Statement of Expectations that should lay out some clear…
Posted on September 24, 2019
Vocus Group has announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to help it bring the best of high-speed connectivity, cloud services and digital growth opportunities to Australian businesses and government organisations. The partnership establishes Vocus as a key sales channel to supply Google…
Posted on September 12, 2019
In his speech at the ACCAN conference in September 2019, Vocus Group Managing Director and CEO Kevin Russell described the core problem with the NBN: “Put simply, the real market value of the NBN is far, far less than what it cost to build”. As a result, “NBN’s decision-making is driven as a monopoly…
Posted on July 24, 2019
Vocus is excited to announce we’ve re-signed as major sponsor of NTFL football club, the Tiwi Bombers, for the next two years. There is plenty happening at the Tiwi Bombers in the lead up to the 2019/20 season. Our new sponsorship deal follows the club’s signing last month of new assistant coaches,…
Posted on July 16, 2019
The 4,700km Coral Sea Cable System, which Vocus is building for the Australian Government, has achieved two major milestones, with the cable now installed at the landing sites at both Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. On Monday 15 July 2019, a ceremony featuring a symbolic handover of a ‘golden…