jenny wiggins
@jennywiggins.bsky.social
Sydney-based senior journalist with The Australian Financial Review covering telecoms, transport and infrastructure
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#AI chatbots that pop up on websites can be really annoying for consumers. But bots created by an Australian AI start-up have a more useful purpose: scamming the scammers. #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/te...
Telco uses AI chatbots to keep scammers hanging on the line
An army of good-guy artificial intelligence bots is being used to trick scammers on phone calls as telecom groups try to stop Australians getting ripped off.
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August 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
#AI chatbots that pop up on websites can be really annoying for consumers. But bots created by an Australian AI start-up have a more useful purpose: scamming the scammers. #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/te...
Curious why Australia's biggest telco company thinks "every part of our business will be redefined by AI? #Telstra executives explain #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/te...
‘It’s like a marriage’: Inside Telstra and Accenture’s AI reinvention
The telco’s $700 million partnership with the consulting group to develop artificial intelligence is no ordinary joint venture.
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May 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Curious why Australia's biggest telco company thinks "every part of our business will be redefined by AI? #Telstra executives explain #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/te...
“The outlook for container shipping is even more uncertain now than it was at the onset of the COVID virus,” according to analysts at maritime research group Drewry. #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/tr...
Trump’s trade war creates worse shipping turmoil than the pandemic
One of the world’s most respected maritime analytics firms says global container volumes will fall this year for only the third time in almost five decades.
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April 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
“The outlook for container shipping is even more uncertain now than it was at the onset of the COVID virus,” according to analysts at maritime research group Drewry. #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/tr...
Could Australia's #mobile phone market be on the verge of another price war? Big telcos have been raising prices but one company believes consumers don't need all the data they're being sold #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/te...
Aussie Broadband launches ‘aggressive’ push into mobile services
The challenger telco will use cheap plans to lure Telstra customers as it plots its most ambitious move into the $20 billion mobile market.
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April 22, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Could Australia's #mobile phone market be on the verge of another price war? Big telcos have been raising prices but one company believes consumers don't need all the data they're being sold #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/te...
Claims in Australia's $7 billion legal battle over whether ASX-listed IAG should stump up cash for policies issued to the #Greensill group before Lex Greensill's empire imploded are landing thick and fast #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/fi...
Greensill Bank alleges IAG executives knew of billion-dollar policies
The claim, filed with the Federal Court, has been brought against the insurance giant by German investors owed money by Lex Greensill’s failed financial group.
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April 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Claims in Australia's $7 billion legal battle over whether ASX-listed IAG should stump up cash for policies issued to the #Greensill group before Lex Greensill's empire imploded are landing thick and fast #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/fi...
Trawling through thousands of pages of documents of insurance claims related to #Greensill Capital's collapse usually makes my head spin. But the court hearings can be quite entertaining #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/fi...
Greensill creditors’ $7b pursuit of IAG could be sent to sixth judge
Companies chasing billions of dollars argue a recently appointed Federal Court judge might be seen to be biased because he once acted for one of the parties.
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February 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Trawling through thousands of pages of documents of insurance claims related to #Greensill Capital's collapse usually makes my head spin. But the court hearings can be quite entertaining #ausbiz www.afr.com/companies/fi...
"When will transmission companies be held to account for woeful cost underestimates, false assurances and poor project delivery?" Good opinion piece on massive cost blow-outs on big energy projects
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Why Transgrid’s $4.1b EnergyConnect is a huge problem
The massive cost blowout of Australia’s largest energy transmission project will come at the expense of energy consumers.
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February 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"When will transmission companies be held to account for woeful cost underestimates, false assurances and poor project delivery?" Good opinion piece on massive cost blow-outs on big energy projects
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Demand for #infrastructure from big international investors could shorten the life of listed companies like Australian tollroad group #Transurban www.afr.com/companies/in...
‘Saleable’ Transurban shapes up as a buyout target
The toll road giant is one of the few infrastructure plays remaining on the ASX. A lacklustre share price could change that.
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February 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Demand for #infrastructure from big international investors could shorten the life of listed companies like Australian tollroad group #Transurban www.afr.com/companies/in...
Australian telco groups are striking satellite deals with Elon Musk's SpaceX as the race for "direct to mobile" services picks up speed
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ASX TLS: Telstra, Optus telecom services to be disrupted by direct-to-mobile satellites
A new generation of providers with low orbiting networks could transform phone use and challenge major telecoms groups like Telstra and Optus within two years.
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January 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Australian telco groups are striking satellite deals with Elon Musk's SpaceX as the race for "direct to mobile" services picks up speed
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On point. Via @pkrugman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/o...
Opinion | Can Twitter, uh, X, Survive Elon Musk?
Destroying a nexus is hard, but he’s trying.
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October 20, 2023 at 5:10 AM
On point. Via @pkrugman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/o...