Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Claiming
that the Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper had misled Australians in a
report on Monday that claimed millions of plasma and LCD televisions
would become obsolete from 1 May, 2009 due to changes in the way
broadcasters transmit, a seething free-to-air TV broadcasters' body
Freeview has issued a statement to sooth the frayed nerves of consumers.
Freeview has emphasised that all existing plasma and LCD
televisions and digital set-top-boxes will continue to work beyond 1
May, 2009.
However, unlucky analogue TV owners - a significant
proportion of the viewing public - will eventually need to ditch their
sets or buy a special HD digital set top box or DVR/PVR device to
receive Freeview channels and watch free-to-air television as the
analogue signal is progressively switched off. Either that or they can
use Kevin Rudd's handout to buy a new Freeview compatible lounge lizard
box.
In its statement, Freeview said: "The free-to-air
broadcasters are strong proponents of providing a quality free-to-air
service to all Australians, and so would never want to compromise the
service by making televisions obsolete. The switchover from analogue to
digital is being rolled out progressively for exactly this reason."
According
to Freeview, any HD digital television receiver can receive the suite
of Freeview channels and they will not become obsolete from 1 May, 2009.
From 1 May, Freeview branded digital television equipment will be widely available from electronic retailers, nation-wide.
According
to Freeview, Australians do not need to purchase Freeview-endorsed
equipment to gain access to Freeview - the retailer will be able to
guide customers on the most appropriate equipment for their needs.
However,
Freeviews states that equipment branded with the Freeview logo will
include known technological advancements, such as the ability to decode
MPEG4 transmission in addition to the existing MPEG2 broadcasts. This
technology has been built in to future-proof these digital devices, the
broadcasters' body says.
Currently, the free-to-air broadcasters
have no plans to switch to MPEG4 transmission, they say. It will be at
the discretion of the individual broadcasters in consultation with the
Australian Government as to when any transition might occur, and if
such a switch did eventuate it would not be until the vast majority of
viewers had MPEG4 enabled equipment, they added
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