items tagged with Optus
Vodafone follows Optus into $0 iPhone zone
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-04-06 00:54:02
Vodafone has finally bitten the bullet and followed rival Optus with $0 upfront plans for the 8GB iPhone on 2 year contracts. The $69 and $79 plans offer reasonable data allowances but do they really threaten what Optus already has out there?
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-04-06 00:54:02
Vodafone has finally bitten the bullet and followed rival Optus with $0 upfront plans for the 8GB iPhone on 2 year contracts. The $69 and $79 plans offer reasonable data allowances but do they really threaten what Optus already has out there?
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Greenwash billing ripoff: so what makes Optus any different?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-04-05 07:42:22
Australia's second largest carrier Optus tells us that going to online billing is the only way to avoid being slugged with an extra charge. Optus is no different from the other carriers in this regard (expect the same from Telstra soon) - they're all unashamedly ripping us off under the guise of environmental concern.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-04-05 07:42:22
Australia's second largest carrier Optus tells us that going to online billing is the only way to avoid being slugged with an extra charge. Optus is no different from the other carriers in this regard (expect the same from Telstra soon) - they're all unashamedly ripping us off under the guise of environmental concern.
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Alphawest’s signs first Saffron customer in Australia
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-03-24 05:32:15
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-03-24 05:32:15
Optus owned Alphawest, a national provider of ICT services, has snared the first order in Australia for its Saffron rich web browser interface for HP TRIM, an electronic records management system, securing a contract with Deakin University in Victoria.
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Conroy confirms NBN decision "just weeks away"
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-03-12 19:19:48
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-03-12 19:19:48
Communications minister Stephen Conroy told the Senate during question time on Wednesday that a decision on the NBN was "just weeks away".
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Time for innovation in mobile broadband offerings
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-03-12 18:59:31
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-03-12 18:59:31
Mobile broadband offerings from Australian carriers don't differ much except on price, but that could change as the networks become more capacity constrained an operators seek to smooth out peaks and sell spare capacity at other times.
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Conroy's finest hour or depth of despair as NBN decision looms
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-10 09:03:58
There is a growing feeling that the coming week could well shape up to be one of the most significant turning points in Australian telecommunications history. The Federal Government, represented by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, has a monumental decision to make and an equally monumental problem on its hands.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-10 09:03:58
There is a growing feeling that the coming week could well shape up to be one of the most significant turning points in Australian telecommunications history. The Federal Government, represented by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, has a monumental decision to make and an equally monumental problem on its hands.
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Arbor expands & upgrades Atlas threat monitoring network
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-03-09 17:10:26
Arbor Networks has upgraded Atlas, its real time Internet threat reporting system, with additional functionality and has trebled the number of participating ISPs from 30 to 100.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-03-09 17:10:26
Arbor Networks has upgraded Atlas, its real time Internet threat reporting system, with additional functionality and has trebled the number of participating ISPs from 30 to 100.
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Optus gets naked with iiNet and others, what now Telstra?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 04:43:33
Competition in the Australian voice and broadband market just got a lot hotter with Optus announcing a naked DSL service running at ADSL2+ speeds, meaning customers can now take out a broadband DSL plan without having to pay an added PSTN telephone line rental charge. Optus, Australia's second largest broadband provider, joins the number three ISP iiNet and a bevy of smaller providers now offering naked DSL plans, putting further pressure on Telstra's PSTN business.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 04:43:33
Competition in the Australian voice and broadband market just got a lot hotter with Optus announcing a naked DSL service running at ADSL2+ speeds, meaning customers can now take out a broadband DSL plan without having to pay an added PSTN telephone line rental charge. Optus, Australia's second largest broadband provider, joins the number three ISP iiNet and a bevy of smaller providers now offering naked DSL plans, putting further pressure on Telstra's PSTN business.
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Telarus to offer Optus 3G data services & virtual hosting
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-03-01 15:39:25
Privately owned telco Telarus is planning to offer mobile data services based on the Optus 3G network and to offer virtualised hosting services. It is also expanding its channel programmes.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-03-01 15:39:25
Privately owned telco Telarus is planning to offer mobile data services based on the Optus 3G network and to offer virtualised hosting services. It is also expanding its channel programmes.
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More competition for broadband guarantee providers
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-26 14:16:14
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has announced a new provider application round under the Australian Broadband Guarantee, and has told people affected by the Victorian fires and Queensland floods that the may be eligible for an ABG subsidised service.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-26 14:16:14
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has announced a new provider application round under the Australian Broadband Guarantee, and has told people affected by the Victorian fires and Queensland floods that the may be eligible for an ABG subsidised service.
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Some answers to Telstra 21Mbps Next G questions
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-18 02:59:40
In an article written before Telstra’s press conference heralding the upgrade of its Next G network to “peak speeds” of 21Mbps, I posed some questions that have now been answered.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-18 02:59:40
In an article written before Telstra’s press conference heralding the upgrade of its Next G network to “peak speeds” of 21Mbps, I posed some questions that have now been answered.
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F-Secure’s F1 giveaway through Optus Broadband
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-16 03:37:47
In an attempt to gain some headway against Symantec and its Norton suites, F-Secure has done a deal for Optus broadband customers, giving them a free trial of its Internet Security suite and a chance to win a trip to the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-16 03:37:47
In an attempt to gain some headway against Symantec and its Norton suites, F-Secure has done a deal for Optus broadband customers, giving them a free trial of its Internet Security suite and a chance to win a trip to the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix.
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Internet filtering trial exposed as a Government sham?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-12 05:44:51
Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy seems to be trying to increase the depth of the hole he's digging with his much maligned Internet content filtering trial. The content filtering scheme and the trial are already widely unpopular but Senator Conroy is stretching the bounds of credibility by restricting the ISPs taking part to mostly bit players.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-12 05:44:51
Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy seems to be trying to increase the depth of the hole he's digging with his much maligned Internet content filtering trial. The content filtering scheme and the trial are already widely unpopular but Senator Conroy is stretching the bounds of credibility by restricting the ISPs taking part to mostly bit players.
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Optus posts flat Q3 result
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-02-10 17:07:25
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The company said that "strong revenue growth was achieved whilst absorbing Optus’ decision to exit the unprofitable consumer fixed resale market." Mobile services accounted or 61 percent of revenue, four percentage points higher than a year ago and 67 percent of EBITDA, down from 71 percent.
Optus added 213,000 new mobile and wireless broadband customers and said that, despite the $44 million hit from iPhone 3G subscriber acquisition costs and expensing upfront the acquisition costs of increased customer numbers, it had "held EBITDA". However this was down six percentage points to 26 percent compared to a year earlier. "Excluding the incremental impact of iPhone 3G initiative and associated equipment revenue mix, underlying EBITDA margin would be at 26.3 percent up 0.9 percentage points from a year ago." Optus said.
The number of 3G subscribers increased to 2.33 million including 388,000 wireless broadband subscribers who pushed data service revenues to 34 percent of ARPU. Also, capped mobile plans are providing increasingly popular. Optus reported that 71 percent of new and recontracted postpaid customers chose capped plans during the quarter and that approximately 51 percent of the total Optus postpaid mobile base were on capped plans as at 31 December 2008, up from 35 percent a year ago.
In the quarter, Optus Mobile operating revenue grew 17 percent to $1.33 billion and Optus says it achieved the largest quarterly outgoing service revenue growth in five years thanks to continued strong demand for iPhone 3G, Optus’ 'Timeless' unlimited plans and wireless broadband. Service revenue increased 12 percent (postpaid by 11 percent and prepaid by 13 percent).
Incoming service revenue returned to double-digit growth this quarter at 10 percent. Blended ARPU grew three percent as a result, Optus claims, of the acquisition of higher value customers.
In Business and Wholesale Fixed, EBITDA was $124 million, up 21 per cent and margin increased two percentage points to 24 percent as a result of the on-net focus. Overall revenue grew 8.8 percent to $515 million. Wholesale revenues grew 10 percent in the third quarter.
In Consumer and SMB fixed, on-net broadband customers increased 25 percent to 815,000 and accounted for 87 percent of the total broadband customer base. Broadband customers, including business grade customers, totalled 933,000, an increase of 40,000 from a year ago. The Unbundled Local Loop (ULL) consumer subscriber base reached 414,000 as at 31 December 2008.
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-02-10 17:07:25
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Optus added 213,000 new mobile and wireless broadband customers and said that, despite the $44 million hit from iPhone 3G subscriber acquisition costs and expensing upfront the acquisition costs of increased customer numbers, it had "held EBITDA". However this was down six percentage points to 26 percent compared to a year earlier. "Excluding the incremental impact of iPhone 3G initiative and associated equipment revenue mix, underlying EBITDA margin would be at 26.3 percent up 0.9 percentage points from a year ago." Optus said.
The number of 3G subscribers increased to 2.33 million including 388,000 wireless broadband subscribers who pushed data service revenues to 34 percent of ARPU. Also, capped mobile plans are providing increasingly popular. Optus reported that 71 percent of new and recontracted postpaid customers chose capped plans during the quarter and that approximately 51 percent of the total Optus postpaid mobile base were on capped plans as at 31 December 2008, up from 35 percent a year ago.
In the quarter, Optus Mobile operating revenue grew 17 percent to $1.33 billion and Optus says it achieved the largest quarterly outgoing service revenue growth in five years thanks to continued strong demand for iPhone 3G, Optus’ 'Timeless' unlimited plans and wireless broadband. Service revenue increased 12 percent (postpaid by 11 percent and prepaid by 13 percent).
Incoming service revenue returned to double-digit growth this quarter at 10 percent. Blended ARPU grew three percent as a result, Optus claims, of the acquisition of higher value customers.
In Business and Wholesale Fixed, EBITDA was $124 million, up 21 per cent and margin increased two percentage points to 24 percent as a result of the on-net focus. Overall revenue grew 8.8 percent to $515 million. Wholesale revenues grew 10 percent in the third quarter.
In Consumer and SMB fixed, on-net broadband customers increased 25 percent to 815,000 and accounted for 87 percent of the total broadband customer base. Broadband customers, including business grade customers, totalled 933,000, an increase of 40,000 from a year ago. The Unbundled Local Loop (ULL) consumer subscriber base reached 414,000 as at 31 December 2008.
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Telstra fudging the numbers on our ULLS margins, says Optus
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-02-10 16:54:51
Optus has accused Telstra of using out of date and inappropriate data on Optus costs and margins to try and claim that a $30 ULLS price would still leave Optus, and other access seekers, with adequate margins on ULLS based services.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-02-10 16:54:51
Optus has accused Telstra of using out of date and inappropriate data on Optus costs and margins to try and claim that a $30 ULLS price would still leave Optus, and other access seekers, with adequate margins on ULLS based services.
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HTC's Android Dream debuts on Optus
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Services
2009-02-05 03:44:21
Was HTC thinking of Philip K Dick when it (excuse the pun) dreamed up for the name for its first Android phone that made its Australian debut this week on the Optus network?
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Services
2009-02-05 03:44:21
Was HTC thinking of Philip K Dick when it (excuse the pun) dreamed up for the name for its first Android phone that made its Australian debut this week on the Optus network?
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Optus' N96 users get a taste of mobile TV broadcasting
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2009-01-22 23:57:31
A bunch of Optus mobile customers with Nokia N96 phones are getting to enjoy the benefits of digital video broadcast to handheld (DVB-H) services under Australia's second trial of the technology which delivers up to 30 video channels over a single 7MHz UHF TV broadcast channel.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2009-01-22 23:57:31
A bunch of Optus mobile customers with Nokia N96 phones are getting to enjoy the benefits of digital video broadcast to handheld (DVB-H) services under Australia's second trial of the technology which delivers up to 30 video channels over a single 7MHz UHF TV broadcast channel.
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Telstra competitors slam Sol's tip to incoming US President Obama
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-01-20 01:31:19
An organisation representing a range of Australian carriers and ISPs has railed against Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's "unsolicited advice" to the incoming Barack Obama administration that it should put part of an economic stimulus package towards improving fixed and wireless broadband in the US.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-01-20 01:31:19
An organisation representing a range of Australian carriers and ISPs has railed against Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's "unsolicited advice" to the incoming Barack Obama administration that it should put part of an economic stimulus package towards improving fixed and wireless broadband in the US.
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Optus shows Australian Open 2009 live on its mobiles – free
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-19 01:02:42
Free live streaming of the Seven Network’s Australian Open 2009 tennis is being offered to Optus 3G mobile subscribers, except those using the iPhone, with plenty of other video content and news as part of the package.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-19 01:02:42
Free live streaming of the Seven Network’s Australian Open 2009 tennis is being offered to Optus 3G mobile subscribers, except those using the iPhone, with plenty of other video content and news as part of the package.
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Platform Networks extends corporate networks via Optus 3G
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Services
2009-01-15 23:25:47
Australian network aggregator, Platform Networks, has launched a wireless broadband access service over the Optus 3G network that is designed to provide secure remote access to enterprise data networks.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Services
2009-01-15 23:25:47
Australian network aggregator, Platform Networks, has launched a wireless broadband access service over the Optus 3G network that is designed to provide secure remote access to enterprise data networks.
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