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Telstra seriously ups ante with no excess wireless broadband charges
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Telstra has tweaked its BigPond Wireless Broadband pricing with some surprising changes including shaping and no excess charges on its 5GB and 10GB plans, seriously putting on the pressure against Vodafone, Optus and Three Mobile – all as predicted.


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Looking for upside as AAPT exits from National Broadband consortium
By: Stuart Corner

AAPT has dealt a serious blow to Terria's credibility and to its chances of winning the Australian Government's National Broadband Network contract, but maybe there is an upside.


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BigPond again to pre-launch Baz Luhrmann’s second “Australia” trailer
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Always one to promote its online services, Telstra is again using the BigPond website and its Next G network to “exclusively preview” the second trailer of Baz Luhrman’s “epic Australia movie” 24 hours before it is released to other mediums.


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Forget the review says Telstra; we can handle rural comms
By: Stuart Corner

Telstra has slammed the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review committee's 385 page report and its 50 recommendations based on more than 20 public hearings, several stakeholder briefings and over 220 submissions, saying that the future of rural telecommunications is safe in Telstra's hands, unfettered by regulation and government intervention.


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Telstra delivers NBN ultimatum
By: Stuart Corner

Telstra has mounted what might be its strongest attack to date on any attempt by the government to deny it the right to build the national broadband network on its terms, claiming it will refuse any other builder access to the copper pairs connecting customers and that it will compete vigorously with a non-Telstra NBN using alternative infrastructure.


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Telstra gets into the outdoor video advertising business, again
By: Stuart Corner

Telstra has expanded a long-running relationship with digital signage company, Prime Digital Media (PDM) , to take on the expanding market for outdoor video advertising screens, so called out-of-home digital (OOHD) signage, but has played down a 'partnership' with PDM announced two years ago by describing PDM as being then merely a 'customer' for a Telstra service.


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Vodafone “extends” 3G mobile broadband schedule
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Vodafone’s 3G mobile broadband network is being built by Ericsson, which has advised it needs more time for completion, although Vodafone says “a vast majority” is already up and running.


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T4 accuses Telstra of “nonsense” over NBN pricing
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Dubbing Telstra’s recent statements as an “amazing broadband price yo-yo” and accusing Telstra over its ability to count or be honest over the cost of the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN), the T4 (Tell the Trust Telstra) coalition says it’s all a load of “nonsense”.


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Telstra BigPond launches 24/7 online and mobile news “channel”
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Calling it the “first” online and mobile dedicated 24 hour news channel, Telstra has taken a customised “Sky News” feed and made it “freely” available online, or for $1.95 per day or $4.95 per month for Telstra Next G mobile customers.


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Price drop: Vodafone’s mobile broadband gets cheaper
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

A day after Optus raised prices on pre-paid mobile broadband, Vodafone cuts its prices instead, showing competition is alive and well in the 3.5G wireless broadband market.


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It’s official: Optus goes mad, hikes wireless broadband pre-paid prices
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Optus has officially gone mad with its announcement that pre-paid wireless broadband pricing is actually going up in price – unless it’s an oddly clever way for Optus to reduce the heavy load on its overburdened 3.5G network. QueTF?!


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Telstra never hosed up 21Mbps actual speeds, promotes eHSPA anyway
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Telstra has finally announced that its network will be capable of reaching “peak” speeds of 21Mbps, but just as there are no 14.4Mbps devices on the current 14.4Mbps “peak” capable network, we won’t see any 21Mbps-class devices anytime soon, either.


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Telstra quick to claim broadband as infrastructure priority
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Telstra’s still-new “Dr Phil”, David Quilty, has issued a statement urging the Australian Federal Government to make broadband its first infrastructure priority, affirming Telstra’s belief it is still the best company placed to build the National Broadband Network and bemoaning the regulatory hurdles that Telstra says has cost 3 years of time.


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Timely warnings from Telstra and Microsoft for early DST start
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Several Australian states will go forward an hour this Sunday, October 5th at 2am, as Daylight Saving starts again for the year, but "watch" out – some of your devices or computers might not automatically make the change. Here’s what to do...


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Mobile, online ads booming: Telstra
By: Stephen Withers

Telstra says advertising revenue for its BigPond web sites has grown by more than 50 percent during the first three calendar quarters. While the September quarter was looking a bit shaky elsewhere, Telstra claimed "strong growth".


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Money-to-burn Gen Y’s waste it on “Caller Tones”
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

With the global economic crises reaching fever pitch, will Gen Y’s desire to frivolously waste money on things like “Caller Tones” give way to the post “Great Depression” learnings of savings and thrift? Or will the need to look, and in this case, sound cool, trump economic reality, with Gen Y’s often still living at home and couched from stock market shenanigans?


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Google Maps' Aussie traffic goes gangbusters through Street View
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

The digital mapping battle in Australia isn’t just being fought between the Telstra Sensis WhereIs service and Navteq, but also the gargantuan Google, whose Google Maps service received a massive traffic boost in August after the controversial Street View service was launched down under.

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Court throws out Telstra's appeal against ACCC ruling
By: Stuart Corner

Telstra has failed in its attempt to have the Federal Court overturn three ACCC pricing decisions for its line sharing service - the price its competitors pay for access to Telstra copper to deliver broadband services while the line continues to provide a standard telephone service.


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