Radio Comms Asia-Pacific spoke with the NSW Telco Authority's director, Shaun Smith, to get an update on the NSW GRN and the infrastructure review. [ + ]

ARCIA's new president, Hamish Duff, presents his views on the leading role ARCIA should play in developing the industry. [ + ]

Sydney is gearing up for ACMA's annual spectrum conference, Radcomms, to be held from 2-3 October at the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour. [ + ]

Attendees at the Comms Connect conference in Melbourne in November will be treated to a special keynote address that promises to be quite 'out of this world'. [ + ]

Protecting terrestrial critical communications infrastructure from climatological influences is of vital importance. Researchers are now looking for new ways to protect communications satellites from space weather too. [ + ]

LTE is quietly gaining a foothold in non-traditional areas. To learn why, we spoke with Simon Lardner from Challenge Networks and found out why his teams sometimes have to be accompanied by armed guards packing Uzis. [ + ]

No other event rivals the Olympic Games when it comes to critical communications needs. With Japan now awarded the 2020 summer Games and the 2014 winter Games in Russia fast approaching, it's timely to look back on London's 2012 Games to see how its communications needs were handled. [ + ]

Don't miss the strong line-up of speakers and exhibitors from Australia and around the world at the nation's leading radio and combined communications conference and exhibition. [ + ]

Emergency services agencies and mining operators could soon achieve more reliable GPS fixes in difficult locations, thanks to Australian research. [ + ]

The Comms Connect 2013 keynote address is to be given by Inspector (Ret) Lance Valcour, executive director of the Canadian Interoperability Technology Interest Group. [ + ]

Critical comms users are looking beyond push-to-talk voice to an all-IP world of converged applications. But which radio standard is best? Jonathan Bunce of Simoco explains the European perspective and puts the case for DMR as a successor to TETRA. [ + ]

Judd Cain from Tait Communications argues that managed services are the best way to simplify and focus a company's critical comms efforts to maximise results. [ + ]

Radio signals from deep space could soon be used to produce a kind of ‘celestial GPS’ for satellite navigation. [ + ]

The challenge of developing instruments to cope with the flood of data from the next generation of radio telescopes is pushing the boundaries of technology. Simulation can help. [ + ]

The Yagi antenna can be found everywhere - land, sea and air. So who was the man who brought us this ubiquitous device? [ + ]