AUSTRALIA ’ S TELECOM GIANTS
Marcquarie Telecom was recently awarded the Frost and Sullivan Australian Data Centre Service Provider of the Year award in 2013 . fierce competition from several other companies like Telstra . Macquarie Telecom has also delayed several of their large government contracts , pushing the expected revenues from these projects from the end of the financial year 2014 into the first quarter of next year .
“ Macquarie Telecom ’ s mobiles business has also experienced faster than anticipated customer migration away from its higher margin offerings to its lower margin platforms ,” the company said in a statement .
“[ Our ] dedicated managed hosting customers are progressively moving from its higher cost dedicated managed server infrastructure offering to its lower cost virtual private cloud offering . The speed of this migration has been greater than anticipated over the past six months , putting downward pressure on hosting earnings for the half .”
Macquarie sees an end to the downgrades however , calling for a balancing out of their earnings in the first half of their 2015 financial year . The cloud-based storage they are currently implementing is less expensive to fund than other storage options , and should offset this year ’ s slightly lower earnings .
Vodafone Redefining Data Plans In an industry-first , Vodafone – the British multinational telecom company – is offering its customers unlimited data in the first two months of their updated mobile Red Plans . This move allows the customer to understand their data-usage patterns before wholly committing to their 12- or 24-month contract .
Macquarie Telecom ’ s mobiles business has also experienced faster than anticipated customer migration away from its higher margin offerings to its lower margin platforms ,” the company said in a statement .
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