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The financial crisis has hit the overall mobile phone market in Australia, with a 16 percent decline in sales last year, but there was some joy amidst the gloom and doom with the smartphone segment defying the recession and growing by 7.6 percent.

Broadband provider, Internode, is out in the market looking to employ new staff as it continues to record strong growth despite what it says are slowing growth rates n a maturing broadband market.

Telstra and its old adversary, the Competitive Carriers’ Coalition have both ‘welcomed’ the government’s decision on the national broadband network (NBN) – but, it’s probably just the start of the next round of sniping between these two muscled up fighters.

Telstra is to introduce additional measures which it says will safeguard its customers from unintentional subscriptions to premium SMS services.

Telstra’s embarked on upgrades of 131 of its exchanges throughout Victoria which it says will give a further 84,000 homes and businesses across the state high speed ADSL2+ broadband services.

Telstra’s launch of its T-Suite retail platform aimed at SMBs has been described as a ‘carefully measured step forward on SaaS’, but one which may present small to medium sized businesses with a real dilemma.

Telstra seems to be going all out to try to project an image of a company that is all caring and concerned about Australia’s thousands of small businesses doing it tough in difficult economic times, with two announcements in as many days about new services for those struggling businesses.