After years of discussions and months of government wrangling, it's finally time for Telstra to close down CDMA for good. So how will the telco go about switching off an entire network?
Politicians say they want to reduce waste and save money. Here is our modest suggestion for the tech and communications sector.
Telstra has announced a cull in its access network supplier contracts, trimming 100 contracts and 100 vendors to three -- Service Stream, Silcar and Visionstream -- with a view to saving AU$140 million over two years.
Telstra is deploying a system that will save it big bucks, but the big question remains. Will those savings be passed on to consumers?
The NSW government's decision to delay the daylight saving time change by a week has caused widespread IT chaos, with Telstra, the RTA, Qantas, and radio station 2GB all reporting problems.
The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
If there's fibre running to the node down my street by the end of 2009, I'll eat my own shoes with mustard sauce.
For all the horror stories of farmers left stranded by the shutdown of the CDMA network, there are plenty of success stories.
A while back, frustration with my inability to get online outside of the office drove me to invest in a 3G data service from Hutchinson's 3. For $30 per month, I get 2GB of data that's accessible pretty much anywhere I go (I do all my work in metropolitan areas).
Say what you will about Senator Stephen Conroy, but he is clearly not a man afraid of confrontation. Well, he'd better not be, because by killing off the OPEL WiMax project he has just set himself up for a battle with Telstra of Biblical proportions or a big meal of crow washed down with a $4.7 billion gift to SingTel Optus.
Tell the Truth Telstra (T4), an initiative formed by a group of Telstra's competitors, sent out this media pack to combat what it said was a media barrage by the nation's largest telco.
Since last November when iiNet very loudly launched its naked DSL product, "naked" has been on everybody's lips, and it seemed like everybody was in on it. Some, however have held out. This round-up of 13 ISPs looks into who's got it, who doesn't and who wants to.
How can you tell if your business is ready for Voice over IP? Also, who are the leading IP handset providers and systems integrators in Australia?
We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.
The TU500 isn't going to win any fashion awards, but underneath its pedestrian skin lurks a highly capable Next G phone.
The Telstra F850 offers a relatively inexpensive way to jump aboard the carrier's Next G platform, as long as you don't mind travelling in the slow lane.
Here's a dollop of irony: the best Windows Mobile smartphone has been created by Palm! A bevy of OS enhancements and access to Telstra's Next G mobile broadband network easily make it the best Windows Mobile device we've ever used.
Etiquette expert June Dally-Watkins has warned people to be careful when sending romantic SMS's to loved ones tomorrow as Telstra prepares for an expected 8 million messages to be sent on Valentines Day.
The Kyocera 3245 brings another option to the table for CDMA users.
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