News (114)

  • TelstraClear gets new mobile buddy in Telecom

    New Zealand is to get a new mobile phone provider, with the announcement today of an agreement between Telecom New Zealand and TelstraClear.

  • Telstra debacle forces Fone Zone to diversify

    Mobile reseller Fone Zone's recent AU$30 million move on Apple specialty chain Next Byte was spurred on by Telstra's decision to launch its Next G network early, the company revealed.

  • Hyundai International: stolen notebooks grey market product

    There has been a bizarre turn of events for the troubled Hyundai notebook reseller channel which was hit by two serious incidents of theft last month.

  • iiNet to offer mobile phone services?

    Broadband ISP iiNet is considering reselling mobile phone and mobile data services. The company also hopes to replace Optus as the second largest broadband player in Australia, according to Greg Bader, the company's chief technology officer.

  • Telstra silent after 'losing iPhone deal'

    As Telstra's rivals prepare for their 11 July 3G iPhone launches, the national carrier has maintained silence over speculation that it derailed its own deal with Apple to resell the device.

Blogs (6)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra: once bitten, twice ... why not?

    The mobile market in India, I recently learned, is racing towards 300 million -- and doing so at a rate of 8.77 million new subscribers per month, according to the latest government figures.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    iPhone and Wi-Fi: the way to 4G?

    Internode has no incentive to provide free access to its Wi-Fi networks for any reason at all, apart from genuine love, and maybe the joy of finding a new way to flip Telstra the bird.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Conroy's Six: Can FTTN's gatekeepers deliver?

    Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    The Swedes are doing it, so why can't we?

    I have never been to Sweden. In fact, I have no real, hard evidence that Sweden really exists as anything more than a collective, Utopian vision where things just work, and life is better.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Give me a ship, and a trading scheme to steer her by

    Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?

Features and Case Studies (25)

  • Fone Zone's PowerPoint hangup pays off

    Most businesses see PowerPoint as the be-all and end-all when it comes to distributing information. As David Braue finds, however, Fone Zone's willingness to look further has paid many benefits.

  • Taming the alpha mail

    The actual administration of e-mail -- getting it into your company, filtering it, distributing it, providing mobile access to it, archiving it, backing it up, undeleting it -- can be an extremely time-consuming, bothersome process.

  • What Telstra, others can learn from South Africa

    A mobile telecommunications revolution in Africa is bringing new economic opportunities to the world's most impoverished continent, while providing lessons that can help carriers around the world push into other low-value markets. Brad Howarth reports.

  • Optus to offer iBurst, courts Unwired

    Optus will resell Personal Broadband Australia's iBurst wireless broadband solution, and is in talks with Unwired about a similar deal.

  • Telstra: What lies ahead

    Telstra is determined to create new sources of revenue by investing in new IP infrastructure and building managed offerings around the integration of infrastructure and services. This means turning the company into a new kind of business -- with major implications for the whole economy.

Reviews (145)

  • Jabra FreeSpeak FS258

    A hands-free and wireless headset, the Jabra can be used with a Bluetooth-capable mobile phone at work, at home, or anywhere in between.

  • Nokia 6820

    It's a Nokia phone that spreads open and gives the users the option to use "always on" access to e-mails. But is it as practical as they say it is? Read our Australian review.

  • Nokia 6230

    This is a beautifully simple looking phone cleverly disguising a rich feature set.

  • Siemens C60

    The C60 is a decent mid-range, tri-band mobile phone that supports a clip-on camera and has a colour screen. Read our Australian review.

  • Nokia 7200

    Nokia has long dominated the mobile phone market yet strangely enough the Finnish manufacturer has never dabbled in creating clamshell phones. That is, until the 7200. Read our Australian review.

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