Telstra: It's a B-grade slasher movie

Telstra: It's a B-grade slasher movie In what the telco likens to a B-grade movie, Telstra says its rivals have forgotten about the goals of the National Broadband Network (NBN) and are instead using it and the government to gain market advantage and tear the incumbent apart.

  • Rural highways get $8m mobile phone signal boost

    The government yesterday laid down AU$8 million for the next year to fill mobile phone black spots on sections of highway as well as selected towns in WA and NT.

    04 July 2008 02:50 PM

  • Optus 3G iPhone pricing announced

    Optus will sell Apple's 8GB 3G iPhone for the outright price of AU$729 and AU$849 for the 16GB model, when purchased with Optus prepaid SIM cards.

    03 July 2008 02:04 PM

  • Telstra mobile users get police powers

    Telstra customers will receive the same service telco companies have been providing the law authorities for years, the ability to track people's location by their mobile phone.

    03 July 2008 03:09 PM

  • Mobile users like disabled PC users

    Mobile-device users find they have the same usability problems that some disabled users encounter with PCs, according to researchers from the University of Manchester.

    03 July 2008 09:29 AM

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  • Broadband guarantee boosted by new rules

    The Federal government has released guidelines for the Australian Broadband Guarantee (ABG) it says will make the program more effective.

    02 July 2008 12:40 PM

  • Femtocells to speed rollout of next-gen networks

    Femtocells could help speed the arrival of next-generation mobile-broadband networks, such as WiMax and LTE (long-term evolution), the future roadmap of 3G.

    02 July 2008 09:36 AM

  • CommBank throws open $1.3bn telco deal

    The Commonwealth Bank has confirmed it is seeking a telecommunications supplier for a 10-year deal, possibly worth AU$1.3 billion.

    01 July 2008 04:07 PM

  • CBS closes US$1.8bn CNET Networks acquisition

    CBS announced Monday it completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of CNET Networks, publisher of many Web sites including CNET News.com, setting the stage for expanding its CBS Interactive division into five categories.

    01 July 2008 09:43 AM

  • Telstra finally woos the iPhone

    Telstra customers won't have to feel left out any more, now that the telco has announced that the iPhone will be winging its way to its stores 11 July.

    30 June 2008 05:21 PM

  • Govt to quiz 'sectoral behaviour' of digital economy

    The federal government has plans to fill "big gaps" in its knowledge about IT usage in specific sectors of Australia's digital economy.

    30 June 2008 04:32 PM

  • Telstra readies Next G mobiles for barcode invasion

    Tomorrow Telstra will start pushing out a software update to half a million customers that will allow users to point their phones at a barcode and be directed to a relevant Web page.

    30 June 2008 01:19 PM

  • Should FTTN kill the current copper network?

    In its regulatory submission this week, Telstra says the new national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) roll-out should not have to interface with current network technologies such as the copper ADSL2+ network, because of impacts on performance.

    27 June 2008 04:01 PM

  • Mobile Linux standards rocked by merger

    The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it was to merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation.

    27 June 2008 09:23 AM

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