WIA News Netcast for Sun, 21 Dec 2025
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What opening announcements and ALARA presenters introduce the WIA National News edition?
This National News Edition originates from VK1 WIA and is rebroadcast throughout Australia and around the world under a common licence published on the WIA website. This WIA National News Service is copyright to the Wireless Institute of Australia and rebroadcast is authorised only under the provisions of that common licence. WIA Director and Company Secretary Peter Cleave, VK8ZZ.
This is the ALARA edition of the WIA National News Service originating from VK1 WIA. ALARA President Shirley, VK5YL.
In WIA National News this week from ALARA we have VK2 AYL Michelle, VK4 Derloo Mike Lindell, VK4 SWE Lynne, But wait, there's many, many more in this edition of news from the Wireless Institute of Australia for WIC commencing Sunday, December 21st. I'm Alara President, Shirley, VK5, YL.
CQ calls, we're all in tune. Ladies of the air under the moon. CQ, CQ, calling out to you. Goes on the frequency, breaking through. From AM to FM, we're all in here. Radio sisters, let the chat begin.
Australiana. The Australian Communications and Media Authority has moved to stop unsafe mobile phones and other illegal radio equipment getting into consumers' hands with a new voluntary scheme aimed at online device sellers. Announced amid growing scrutiny on mobile phone emergency call reliability, triggered by fatalities recently linked to triple zero call issues, the scheme invites online retailers to take measures to block the sale of a range of dodgy radio communication devices, including grey market cellular handsets. The scope of radio communication devices that the equipment safety pledge aims to capture is broad. It includes CBs, illegal transmission jamming devices, mobile phone boosters and cellular mobile signal repeaters.
However, it also includes grey market mobile phones, which have started to enter the increasingly volatile debate over the integrity of Australia's emergency calling ecosystem. Google will build three subsea cables in Papua New Guinea, which the largest Pacific island nation said was funded by Australia under a mutual defence treaty, in a key upgrade to its digital backbone. Australian and US military strategists view resource-rich but largely underdeveloped Papua New Guinea as having a prized location north of Australia at a time when China is boosting its influence in the region. The $180 million-plus effort will link northern and southern Papua New Guinea and the Bougainville Autonomous Region with high-capacity cables, said Papua New Guinea's Acting Minister for Information and Communications Technology.
The entire investment funded through Australia's commitments under the Puk Puk Treaty, he said in a statement referring to a mutual defence pact signed in October. Google said last month it planned to build a data hub on Australia's Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island, another strategic defence location, with new cables linking the island with Australian cities hosting key defence bases also used by the US military. Two more cable systems will extend westwards to Africa and Asia to deepen the resilience of Indian Ocean internet infrastructure, Google said. The Australian Communications and Media Authority, ACMA, has released its approach to manage the expiring spectrum licences that underpin mobile and wireless broadband services.
This spectrum is relied on by the 99% of Australian adults who use mobile services. The ACMA's preferred position is to renew the licences currently used by Australia's three mobile networks and the wireless component of the NBN. A total market value of $7.3 billion is estimated with the regulator inviting a final round of views on its pricing methodology. Blair, ZL3 Tango Oscar Yankee, Secretary, Christchurch Amateur Radio Club, notes in the latest New Zealand Art Break in that this WIA national news service is retransmitted at 11am local time Sunday in Christchurch, New Zealand region.
Happy Christmas to all listening across the ditch. In early November, I announced that nominations to become a director of the WIA were open.
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Chapters
3 chapters
1
What opening announcements and ALARA presenters introduce the WIA National News edition?
0:00–15:06
2
What is ACMA’s new voluntary scheme to block illegal radio equipment online?
15:06–22:47
3
How will Google’s subsea cables and Christmas Island hub affect Pacific digital infrastructure?
22:47–29:56
Speakers
10 identified
Lyndall VK4ZM 7 min
Michelle VK2AYL 6 min
Shirley VK5YL (ALARA President) 4 min
Lynne VK4SWE 4 min
David VK5LSB (South Coast Amateur Radio Club) 3 min
Pete Cherry VK2LP (Returning Officer) 2 min
WIA station identification (Unknown) 1 min
Peter Cleave VK8ZZ (WIA Director / Company Secretary)
VK1WIA (WIA news desk)
Shirley VK5YL (announcement line) / ALARA intro (Unknown)