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Telstra releases new pre-paid plans and blue tick Next G handset
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Telstra says it has listened to “customer feedback” in creating its four new prepaid phone plans, promising “great benefits like free voice minutes, text, data and long credit expiry” while also launching a new “Blue Tick approved” Next G “T6” handset.


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McInerney confirmed as Telstra CIO
By: Stephen Withers

Telstra has promoted John McInerney to the roles of chief information officer and group managing director.


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Telstra demos 21Mbps on Next G
By: Stuart Corner

Telstra this week gave the first demonstration of enhanced HSPA n its Next G network using a modem developed by Sierra Wireless capable of a maximum downstream speed of 21Mbps. Telstra is promising commercial services early in 2009.


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Telstra brings 21Mbps wireless broadband to life – in demo
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Although a 21Mbps wireless broadband demo took place overseas a few weeks ago, Telstra decided to use its “Investor Day” to make its first Australian demo in front of partners, analysts and the press, with more trials in December and a “full commercial launch early next year”.


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Google's Android: apps selling, jailbreak broken, Ballmer not a fan
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

With only 200 programs available so far for the G1 Android gPhone, Google says apps are nevertheless proving popular. Meanwhile, a gPhone jailbreak gets patched and shock, horror: Steve Ballmer says he’s not a fan.


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Steve Ballmer speaks and he’s excited!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Developers, developers, developers – Steve Ballmer came to Sydney today to speak at Microsoft’s Power To Developers conference, followed by two of his top lieutenants. What did he say, and where can you watch the entire webcast?


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Telstra unifies communications for consumers
By: Stuart Corner

Telstra has launched a suite of messaging services for Next G and BigPond customers that combines email, voicemail, picture messaging, SMS and multimedia communications into what is claimed to be a singe secure, integrated online and mobile service.


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CEOs of Microsoft and Cisco drop in to back Telstra
By: Stuart Corner

Telstra this week announced alliances with both Microsoft and Cisco to deliver, amongst other things, unified communications services to enterprise customers.
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iPhone cost Optus $44m and terrible data/voice performance
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Optus says that its EBITDA earnings were down by $44m thanks to costs associated with the getting a 55% share of the iPhone market. Was it worth it?


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Microsoft and Telstra’s excellent strategic alliance adventure
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Billed as an “Australian industry first”, Microsoft and Telstra are getting all SaaS-y in bed together to deliver online apps, unified comms and mobile services from mid 2009 in a “seamless one-click, one-touch user experience”.


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BigPond in High School Musical 3 promotion extravaganza
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

With High School Musical 3 at the top of US movie box office, Disney is hoping the same will happen in Australia upon the movie’s release come December 4, and has created a promotional site with BigPond full of content to get fans all excited.


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Telstra pulls out of broadband conference alleging panel bias
By: Stuart Corner

Telstra has made an eleventh hour withdrawal from a broadband conference being held in Sydney on 5 and 6 November claiming that a discussion panel was overly weighted with its competitors, and that non-disclosure terms of the NBN RFP would have precluded it from making any meaningful contribution in a 'showcase' session.


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Telstra workers prepare to strike: ACTU calls for new IR umpire
By: Stuart Corner

The ACTU has called on the Government to create a new industrial umpire with dispute-settling powers to break a long-running stalemate between Telstra and its unions that is threatening to escalate into strike action.


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No more Google Schmoogle as Sensis maps future direction in search
By: Stan Beer

The announcement today that Sensis and Google have joined forces to put all of its Yellow directory business listings on Google Maps and that it will replace its own search technology with Google's signals two things. Sensis is finally getting real and it has accepted that search is not its business.


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ACTU slams Telstra over its hard line on NBN
By: Stuart Corner

The hardline stance of Telstra management on the National Broadband Network has stirred up a powerful new opponent: the Australian Council of Trade Unions which has been lobbying institutional investors claiming that Telstra is in danger of putting $11.9b of shareholder value and thousand of jobs at risk if it refuses to participate.


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Telstra’s 21Mbps Next G network: 21Mbps modems in 2009
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Although Telstra’s Next G network has operated at speeds of “up to” 14.4Mbps, only 7.2Mbps class devices have been available. But now that Telstra’s network will run at 21Mbps speeds by the end of the year, when will 21Mbps-class modems follow?


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McDonalds: would you like free Wi-Fi with that?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

No, it’s not Wi-Fries that McDonalds will soon be offering its customers, but free Wi-Fi instead, something I thought would never happen in Australia, but will from March 2009.


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BigPond makes shaped wireless broadband the new standard?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Although iPrimus and Virgin offer shaped broadband on their mobile broadband plans, with Telstra only now offering the same feature on its 5GB and 10GB plans, how soon will it be before shaped wireless plans are the norm for all users?


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