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| Dec 10, 2022 | Telstra blames privacy breach on 'database misalignment' | Telstra has disclosed a privacy breach, reportedly involving over 130,000 customers whose details were mistakenly published online via Directory Assistance and the White Pages when they should have been unlisted.
The telco’s chief financial... |
| Nov 7, 2022 | Telstra welcomes 5G standalone-capable smartphones at last | Two years later than it first hoped, Telstra is now hailing the arrival of consumer devices that can use the 5G network slicing technology it deployed in 2020.
When it first announced Telstra 5G Standalone, the carrier anticipated devices w... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | Experts warn Telstra-TPG tie-up could see regional customers pay more for internet | Australians could be charged more for their mobile internet if a proposed partnership between Telstra and TPG is approved by the consumer watchdog.
Telecommunications experts told The New Daily that if the deal was approved the two telcos w... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | Telstra readies energy retail for launch | Telstra has opened registrations for its new Telstra Energy business, which will be retailing electricity and gas.
Its key pitch is environmental: to "offset the carbon emissions from your energy use at no extra cost."
"This ... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | Telstra readies green energy retail for launch | Telstra has opened registrations for its new Telstra Energy business, which will be retailing electricity and gas.
Its key pitch is environmental: to "offset the carbon emissions from your energy use at no extra cost."
"This ... |
| Apr 7, 2022 | Telstra now blocking scam texts in the network | Telstra is fighting back against the rise of scam texts by blocking them at the network level.
According to a blog post authored by CEO Andy Penn, the scam filter – part of Telstra’s 'cleaner pipes' initiative – is designed to prevent theft... |
| Apr 7, 2022 | Telstra Users Can Now Turn On 'Complex' Filter to Block Scam Text Messages | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 07 April 2022, 02:04 am
Scam text messages are plaguing the users over the past years. Despite several mitigation measures that they can do, some people still fall into this trap.
This week, Telstra announced that i... |
| Nov 4, 2021 | Telstra boosts mobile site power resiliency ahead of disaster season | Telstra has boosted battery back-up power at 341 mobile tower sites in regional Australia, extending power reserves from three hours up to 12 hours for some of the country's most remote towns. The upgrades were made with assistance from the... |
| Oct 25, 2021 | Telstra Acquires Digicel Pacific, South Pacific's Number One Mobile Operator | Isabella James, Tech Times 25 October 2021, 12:10 am
Telstra has announced its acquisition of Digicel Pacific, which is regarded as the biggest mobile operator in the South Pacific. The acquisition has been made possible thanks to a partner... |
| Oct 20, 2021 | Telstra, Optus trade multi-gigabit speed tests on 5G | Telstra and Optus say they are both seeing multi-gigabit speeds on millimetre-wave (mmWave) portions of their respective 5G networks.
Optus’ managing director of marketing and revenue Matt Williams said “initial testing has delivered downlo... |
| Sep 22, 2021 | Fallen victim to delivery and post office text scams? Here’s what you can do about it | Source: Unsplash/Priscilla du Preez.
For most people, the ping of an incoming SMS will induce some level of excitement — or mild intrigue at least. But with SMS scams on the rise, many may now be meeting this same sound with trepidation.
Ac... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Telstra renames its telco towers business to Amplitel | Telstra has decided to rebrand the infrastructure business that houses its telecommunications tower assets from ‘InfraCo Towers’ to Amplitel.
Telstra said in a blog post that it chose the name Amplitel “as a hybrid of the words ‘amplify’ an... |
| Jul 7, 2021 | Telstra to pay out $25m in refunds over underperforming NBN services | Telstra is expected to refund a total of around $25 million to tens of thousands of NBN users that paid for services that their lines could not achieve.
Much of this relates to an issue uncovered back in 2017 and for which Telstra entered a... |
| Jun 21, 2021 | TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED
Telstra : Australian consumers now paying more for mobile plans | Millions of Australian consumers will pay more for their mobile phone plans after recent price increases by all three big telco companies, new analysis by the ACCC has found.
Since July 2020, Telstra, Optus and Vodafone have increased the p... |
| Jun 21, 2021 | Telstra : Australian consumers now paying more for mobile plans | Millions of Australian consumers will pay more for their mobile phone plans after recent price increases by all three big telco companies, new analysis by the ACCC has found.
Since July 2020, Telstra, Optus and Vodafone have increased the p... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | Telstra's $328m NSW schools project has flow-on benefits for business | Telstra said that a $328 million project upgrading fibre connectivity to NSW schools will also benefit businesses in regional areas, with access to up to 10Gbps speeds now possible.
Group executive for Telstra’s enterprise division, David B... |
| Jun 15, 2021 | Telstra comes down harder on suspected scam calls | Telstra said it has more than doubled the number of suspected scam calls it is blocking every month.
Asia Pacific CISO Narelle Devine said in a blog post that the telco is “now blocking around 13 million suspected scam calls on average per ... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Telstra stands up automated platform to block scam calls | Telstra said it is blocking up to half a million scam calls on its busiest days using a new automated platform, part of a “double down” of a broader crackdown effort against scams that transit across its network infrastructure.
CEO Andrew P... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Telstra proposes 'net reduction of up to 1425 roles' | Telstra has lifted a year-long pause on job reductions under its T22 transformation program, briefing teams yesterday on plans for a “net reduction” of up to 1425 roles.
The telco paused reductions in March last year, citing uncertainty cre... |
| Jan 20, 2021 | Ericsson, Qualcomm, Telstra claim 5 Gbps speed record using 5G carrier aggregation | Australian mobile operator Telstra alongside partners Ericsson and Qualcomm claimed a 5G download speed record Wednesday, hitting 5 Gbps for a single user on a commercial network.
The test leveraged New Radio (NR) carrier aggregation for mi... |
| Dec 23, 2020 | Telstra packs Gold Coast apartment with devices in 5G EME test | Telstra loaded up a Gold Coast apartment with 58 connected devices, and some spectrum analyzers and teenagers, to test the amount of “electromagnetic energy (EME) in a very high-tech connected home.”
Principal of EME strategy, governance an... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Telstra’s head of muru-D departs | Telstra’s head of muru-D Julie Trell has left the start-up accelerator after the telco decided to switch from backing start-ups to providing them with access to its technology.
Trell moved to Australia to take up the role in March 2017, wor... |
| Oct 19, 2020 | As Australia drags its heels on 5G adoption, Apple will sell its new high-spectrum 5G iPhone 12 to US customers only | Source: Unsplash/Fixelgraphy.
Following in the footsteps of Samsung, Apple has released its first high-spectrum 5G smartphone, the iPhone 12. But only US customers will benefit.
High-spectrum 5G uses millimetre-wave frequencies in the 26GHz... |
| Oct 5, 2020 | Testing mistake triggered Telstra route 'hijacks' | An erroneous bulk upload of static routes to a Telstra production network edge router was the cause of last Wednesday's internet-wide service disruption that saw data traffic take a long detour via Australia, causing performance degradation... |
| Sep 29, 2020 | Telstra sets conservative speed expectations for 'up to gigabit' NBN add-on | Telstra is set to offer NBN Co’s "ultrafast" broadband product with up to gigabit speeds, but has set a conservative expectation of 250Mbps speeds for the evening peak.
The telco said today it would offer NBN Co’s ‘superfast’ and ... |
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| Jul 29, 2020 | Telstra positions over-provisioned NBN downlink as a speed boost 'freebie' | NBN Co will finish over-provisioning downlinks on most fixed line services by the end of this month, although at least one retailer is already marketing the change to customers as a “freebie” speed boost.
Over-provisioning was pushed by the... |
| Jul 23, 2020 | Telstra joins CSIRO lab 'that invented wi-fi' to test wireless setups in a six-bedroom home | Telstra has spent six months with “the CSIRO team linked to the invention of wi-fi” testing out different wi-fi setups in a sprawling six bedroom house in the ‘burbs, with a small robot that moved from room to room to measure signal strengt... |
| Jun 25, 2020 | 5G rollouts grow amid COVID-19 crisis | Image: hqrloveq, Getty Images/iStockphoto
The coronavirus pandemic has stifled progress in many areas. But one technology that has continued to grow in the face of the pandemic is 5G. A report released Wednesday by industry trade group 5G A... |
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| May 25, 2020 | Telstra CEO wants NBN upgrade paths reflected in govt policy | Telstra CEO Andy Penn wants a “long term” strategy for Australian telecommunications to be developed with government, spelling out upgrade paths for the NBN and removing barriers to 5G and edge compute deployments.
Penn laid out a broad pol... |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Telstra uses AI to vet 19,000 candidates for 1000 temp jobs | Telstra used artificial intelligence software to vet more than 19,000 people vying for 1000 temporary contact centre roles over the past fortnight.
The telco’s group executive for transformation, communications and people Alex Badenoch reve... |
| Apr 2, 2020 | Telstra says COVID-19 leads customers to cancel technician visits | Telstra has revealed current and prospective NBN customers are cancelling technician appointments or blocking site entry over COVID-19 concerns.
The telco provided more detail of changes to its field work practices and the impact of COVID-1... |
| Mar 13, 2020 | Telstra tells Australian office staff to work from home | Telstra has told all Australian-based office staff that can do so to work from home from next week until at least the end of the month.
The telco also said it had cancelled all events and meetings of more than 25 people, as well as all dome... |
| Jan 30, 2020 | Telstra builds ACE chatbot for its field technicians | Telstra has created a chatbot for its technicians in the field that enables them to live chat with contact centre agents and draw upon data held in a central knowledge management system.
The telco provided a more complete picture of digital... |
| Jan 22, 2020 | Telstra reveals 4x cost gap on 5G site builds | Telstra is expecting wide variation in the cost of deploying its 5G network, with some “macro” 5G sites four or more times more expensive to build than others.
The telco revealed the cost discrepancy in a regulatory filing on Tuesday night,... |
| Jan 6, 2020 | NBN Co deploys satellite services to bushfire evacuation centres | NBN Co is expecting to have satellite-powered free wifi services available at 17 bushfire evacuation centres in NSW and Victoria later today.
The network builder has also sent at least one of its Road Muster trucks to sites where it has bee... |
| Jan 2, 2020 | NBN Co sends Road Muster truck to NSW south coast | NBN Co has sent one of its Road Muster trucks to a bushfire evacuation centre at Batemans Bay on the NSW south coast, offering free wi-fi and device charging for the community.
“The NBN Road Muster truck has arrived at the evacuation centre... |
| Oct 24, 2019 | Bevan Slattery to build new Oman-Australia subsea cable | Australia is set to get a new international subsea data cable system called the Oman Australia Cable, which is to be built by a new company founded by telecommunications entrepreneur Bevan Slattery.
The OAC will “directly connect Muscat, Om... |
| Sep 12, 2019 | Telstra blocks 2.9m scam calls in one month | Telstra blocked 2.9 million “scam calls” in July this year alone, highlighting the need for industry and government to come together on the issue.
But CEO Andy Penn said consumers also needed to play a part in the way they dealt with receiv... |
| Aug 8, 2019 | Telstra rejigs how it markets products built by Agile teams | Telstra is having to rethink the way it markets products that are built and improved in an Agile manner, given their potential to quickly evolve and deviate from the way in which they were originally sold.
Senior lead for entertainment prod... |
| Jul 30, 2019 | Telstra tells NBN Co to scrap CVC charges | Telstra is the latest internet provider to urge NBN Co to scrap the connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) construct, warning it is driving up prices and pushing consumers to look elsewhere for broadband.
CEO Andy Penn said in a blog post that ... |
| Jul 24, 2019 | Freight forwarding scam bankrupting Aussie IT suppliers | Freight forwarding scams have bankrupted “a number” of Australian businesses with losses averaging up to $100,000, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC).
The ACSC said that small and medium-sized businesses were being hit particularly... |
| Jun 3, 2019 | Telstra to allow its payphones to receive calls | Telstra is set to allow publicly-accessible payphones to receive incoming calls under changes to the way the phones operate and are priced.
The telco provides 15,500 public payphones across Australia and is currently in the process of upgra... |
| May 22, 2019 | Telstra to offer free 5G connectivity for first year | Telstra will offer 5G connectivity free to all customers with a compatible device for at least a year, marking its aggressive entry into the next-generation cellular space.
CEO Andy Penn revealed the free connectivity offer this morning, co... |
| Apr 2, 2019 | Telstra to expand LTE-B live streaming to more sports | Telstra has revealed that live sports streaming on its mobile network using LTE-B technology is already above expectations, with plans afoot to expand the capability to other sporting codes.
The telco turned on LTE-Broadcast (LTE-B) technol... |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Telstra to act faster to fix copper faults | Telstra will be forced to repair copper lines used for vital voice services much faster and to keep a higher inventory of spare parts handy after a review last year that was critical of its handling of faults.
CEO Andy Penn and the governme... |
| Jan 10, 2019 | Telstra claims it will have 5G handsets before other telcos | Telstra has struck agreements with handset makers for what it says will be “exclusive” access to 5G commercial smartphones in the first half of this year.
The announcement was made by CEO Andy Penn at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (C... |
| Dec 5, 2018 | HTC 5G Hub and Inseego MiFi 5G confirm larger hotspot form factors | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As the first mobile 5G cellular networks roll out over the next six months, hotspots — sometimes called “pucks” — will be the first por... |
| Sep 17, 2018 | ACCC boss warns telcos against 1.5Mbps 'unlimited' services | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has taken a dim view of mobile telcos' "unlimited" data services that came partially impaired by a 1.5Mbps speed limit.
ACCC chairman Rod Sims today warned telcos against t... |
| Jul 30, 2018 | Telstra alerts business customers after privacy snafu | Telstra has apologised to customers after a search function error in its Telstra Tools self service function exposed contact details of business clients to other users of the help site.
Three customers were able to view emails about planned... |
| Jun 15, 2018 | Linfox 'working with AWS' to track late-running trucks | Linfox is “working with Amazon Web Services” and others on a project that would allow the logistics company's drivers to predict whether they will meet or miss the timeframe for a scheduled delivery.
Speaking on a new Telstra internet of th... |
| Mar 7, 2018 | Telstra to 'restore and reignite' NBN retail business | Telstra has laid out ambitions to “restore and reignite” its retail NBN business, bringing several internal teams together under a new head of NBN role.
The head of NBN will sit within the telco’s consumer and small business division (forme... |
| Mar 7, 2018 | Highlights from Mobile World Congress 2018: 3D selfies, super slo mo video and 4G for the moon | By Mohamed Abdelrazek, Deakin University
The biggest mobile showcase of the year – the Mobile World Congress (MWC) – wrapped up in Barcelona at the start of March, where some 2,300 exhibitors revealed their latest products and technologies.... |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Telstra puts drones into production in Tasmania | Telstra has put drones into use across Tasmania to assist with asset inspections and site assessments, in the hope they will improve safety for workers and reduce network downtime.
The telco has been trialling the use of drones for these pu... |
| Oct 18, 2017 | Wi-fi flaw confuses Aussie internet users | Confusion is sweeping Australian internet users after the disclosure of a flaw in the WPA2 protocol used to secure wi-fi, with many unsure of what they need to patch.
The flaw, which was made public late on Monday night local time, puts alm... |
| Oct 16, 2017 | Telstra pays to test 41,000km of network coverage | Telstra has paid four network test teams to drive and walk 41,000km to test the strength of mobile signals across Australia.
Group managing director of networks Mike Wright said in a blog post that Telstra commissioned the research to bench... |
| Aug 29, 2017 | Telstra ditches third-party billing for subscriptions | Telstra has decided to stop allowing third-party subscription-based content providers to charge for their products from the telco's customer bills, following long-time problems with the practice.
Third-party billing generally involves subsc... |
| May 12, 2017 | Telstra admits thousands of NBN users were shafted on speeds | Telstra has admitted that thousands of its NBN customers were sold broadband plans with speeds that weren't achievable.
In a blog post late yesterday, Telstra retail boss Kevin Russell revealed around 1 percent of the telco's NBN customer b... |
| May 4, 2017 | Muru-D is moving in with Telstra’s new IoT hub as the telco giant launches search for an entrepreneur-in-residence | Telstra-backed accelerator muru-D is expanding operations to Melbourne as the telco giant launches a brand new Internet of Things (IoT) hub for startups and the broader public to build, test and prototype solutions in this space.
Muru-D, wh... |
| Mar 14, 2017 | Newcrest brings high-speed satellite to Lihir gold mine | Gold miner Newcrest has struck a five-year deal with Telstra that will substantially boost connectivity at its remote Lihir island mine in Papua New Guinea.
The miner has traded its existing site connectivity using geostationary satellite l... |
| Feb 28, 2017 | Telstra preps nationwide LTE broadcast service | Telstra plans to launch LTE-B broadcast services on a commercial basis this year, with an aim to provide nationwide coverage in 2018.
LTE-B will be enabled in Telstra Media services as well as a linear streaming channel. Telstra's technolog... |
| Jan 31, 2017 | Telstra to boost CBD 4G speeds to 1Gbps | Telstra is switching on capabilities in its 4G network that will bring gigabit peak speeds to five CBD zones across Australia.
The telco will launch gigabit LTE speeds in the Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane CBDs in mid-February, with Adelai... |
| Jan 13, 2017 | Telstra warns container ships off its subsea patch | Telstra is forced to warn the captains of between 30 and 50 container ships a month that are seen to be travelling too close to the telco’s subsea cable infrastructure paths.
Executive director of international operations and services Darri... |
| Jan 9, 2017 | Disaster recovery in 2017, according to Zerto | The new year is well and truly upon us, and with every new year comes an influx of new predictions that the IT industry can expect to deal with. |
| Nov 18, 2016 | Telstra claims regulated roaming would negate $1bn regional spend | Telstra's plan to invest almost $1 billion into mobile coverage in remote and rural areas over the next five years would be "uneconomical" if the government decides to regulate domestic mobile roaming, the telco claims.
At its ann... |
| Oct 31, 2016 | Telstra eyes entry into drone market | Telstra is planning to expand its use of drones both internally and as part of “viable products and services” for external sale.
The telco last week unveiled plans to bring a drone technology expert into its chief technology office, with re... |
| Sep 21, 2016 | Telstra showcases 5G in live trial | Telstra has deepened its commitment to 5G mobile networking, demonstrating its first trial of the technology publicly at its network operations centre in Melbourne yesterday.
The technology, which promises Gbps speeds to mobile users, is st... |
| Aug 22, 2016 | Big businesses staring down the same ‘valley of death’ as startups | By Nick Wailes, UNSW Australia
Corporate leaders are facing the same valley of death faced by many startups, judging by the latest round of financial results. These large Australian businesses are operating in markets disrupted by new techn... |
| Aug 4, 2016 | Telstra upgrades wireless core for 5G | Telstra is taking steps to prepare its mobile core network to underpin 5G services by deploying a set of undisclosed network function virtualisation (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) technologies.
Group managing director for netwo... |
| Jul 9, 2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 7/9/16 | Google bought Moodstocks and Anvato; Avast acquired AVG; Alibaba purchased Wandoujia
Hornet, a gay social network for chatting and dating, acquired Vespa, a gay city guide. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Christof Wittig, Ves... |
| Jun 29, 2016 | Telstra to pour $250m into fixing network | Telstra will spend $250 million to address problems with its struggling network following an ongoing series of outages that have plagued Australia's biggest telco since the start of the year.
The money, which will come out of Telstra's exis... |
| May 18, 2016 | Telstra hits another nail in BigPond coffin | Telstra has moved closer to the full closure of its long-running BigPond brand after announcing a new Telstra Mail email service that will swallow up BigPond webmail.
The telco has been in the process of shutting down the BigPond brand sinc... |
| Apr 2, 2016 | Telstra Offers Free Data On April 3, Its Way Of Saying Sorry Again For Massive Network Outage | Santiago Tiongco, Tech Times 02 April 2016, 07:04 am
Telstra subscribers in Australia will surely send the company's networks into overdrive again come April 3, Sunday, for the scheduled free data event.
Previous records hit 1,841 TB worth ... |
| Feb 15, 2016 | Telstra Customers Downloaded Data Equivalent To 5.1 Million Episodes Of 'Game Of Thrones' On Free-Data Sunday | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 15 February 2016, 03:02 am
Telstra subscribers in Australia suffered through a pair of service disruptions last week. The first one saw 1.5 million customers experience a major outage in voice calls and data, while ... |
| Feb 8, 2016 | Telstra sees potential in energy tech | Telstra is creating a new division that will focus on energy efficiency and renewable technologies, both internally at the telco and for the wider market.
The initiative will focus on improving energy efficiency at the telecommunications gi... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | The six lessons I learned from launching a startup at 18: “Shut up and do it already” | Last year was an incredibly weird year for me.
Most teenagers don’t go from being a first-year university student to CEO of an award-winning and funded startup in only a matter of months – but I’m often overwhelmed by symptoms more akin to ... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Telstra backtracks on excess data roaming price hike | Telstra has backed down on a decision to triple excess data charges for its international roaming travel pass following a customer backlash.
Telstra CEO Andy Penn today said the telco would no longer raise the three cents per megabyte it ch... |
| Nov 10, 2015 | Telstra Hits 1Gbps Over 4G LTE Network (Yes, It's OK To Drool) | Sumit Passary, Tech Times 10 November 2015, 07:11 am
Australian carrier Telstra has announced that the network has hit 1Gbps mark over 4G LTE.
Telstra achieved the high speeds by aggregating diverse spectrum bands on its network. The operat... |
| Nov 9, 2015 | Telstra, Ericsson achieve five-carrier LTE aggregation | Telstra and its technology supplier Ericsson claim to have achieved a world-first with a test that used four separate radio frequency spectrum bands with five carriers for very high long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) bit rates.
The trial ... |
| Oct 6, 2015 | Telstra pushes LANES to emergency services, enterprises | Telstra is continuing its drive to get emergency services agencies using its dedicated LANES service for their mobile communications, partnering with Ambulance Victoria for the AFL grand final on Saturday.
The trial comes as the Productivit... |
| Aug 4, 2015 | Up next: video-on-demand shakes up the television industry | Telstra last week announced that it will launch Telstra TV in September. This could be the “all-in-one” video streaming service many Australians have craved, bundling together the three leading video-on-demand (VoD) services: Netflix, Stan ... |
| Jul 13, 2015 | Telstra to hike line rental, call prices | Telstra will raise its monthly phone line rental charges from October 1 to account for the increased investment it is making in its network, the telco said today.
The increases will affect BusinessLine PSTN and ISDN customers as well as hom... |
| Jul 6, 2015 | Telstra takes Warrnambool fire lessons to more sites | Telstra has applied its $10 million effort to restore its Warrnambool exchange after a 2012 fire to address power, back-up and safety issues more widely across its Australian network.
The November 2012 fire knocked out services to up to 60,... |
| Jun 19, 2015 | Telstra to kill off dial-up | Telstra will retire its dial-up internet plans and migrate the last of its remaining customers by December this year.
The telco's director of fixed broadband Stuart Bird today said customers still on a dial-up account would be contacted abo... |
| May 8, 2015 | Measuring success in startup land: Demo Night for muru-D’s Class#2 | The team from Tripalocal (Source: muru-D Facebook page)
There are plenty of different ways to measure startup success across customers, investors, partnerships or distribution agreements. So which one should you aim for?
● Four have signed ... |
| Apr 15, 2015 | Telstra to switch on 1500 more hotspots in wi-fi trial | Telstra will switch on 1500 additional hotspots as part of an extension to a trial of its proposed national wi-fi network before June, the telco announced today.
Last May the telco revealed plans to spend more than $100 million to build a n... |
| Apr 7, 2015 | Explainer: what is 5G? | If you take a stroll outside today, you’ll see a lot of people with mobile phones, phablets or tablets in their hands making calls, using the internet to catch up on the news, watch videos, or interacting with others via Facebook, Tumblr or... |
| Mar 27, 2015 | Telstra promises to keep customer metadata safe | Australia's largest telco Telstra has pledged to keep the metadata it is required to store on its customers for two years safe after the data retention scheme passed the Senate last night.
The Government and the Labor Party united last nigh... |
| Mar 6, 2015 | Telstra offers customers access to metadata for $25 | Telstra will allow its customers to access the metadata the telco stores on them for a fee ranging upwards from $25.
Telstra's announcement follows a recommendation made last Friday by the parliamentary committee tasked with investigating t... |
| Jan 20, 2015 | Telstra tests solar fuel cell for backup power | Telstra is trialling the use of hydrogen-based backup power to keep exchange sites up and running in the event of a mains power outage.
In a blog post today, Telstra head of property John Romano revealed the telco had installed a solar fue... |
| Sep 12, 2013 | Hurry! ISP Needs Volunteers to Have Their BitTorrent Traffic Throttled | At the turn of the last decade almost every Internet user was asking for more bandwidth. As transfers of music and video increased in popularity, having the fattest possible pipe became an almost universal dream.
Over the past few years the... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | Why Telstra plans to slow you down to fight online piracy | There’s some suspicious sleight-of-hand in Telstra’s explanation of its plan to “trial” the slowing-down of certain kinds of internet traffic at peak periods.
As Fairfax’s Ben Grubb reported yesterday, Telstra will soon conduct a “limited t... |
| Telstra partners with Starlink to provide connectivity to Australian rural business customers | Image: Supplied
Telstra has announced a partnership with Starlink to provide fixed broadband and voice services to rural Australians. According to the telco, this will also include an option for business customers.
Telstra dropped the news ... |
| Victorian trial will connect cars to speed limit and traffic light data | Victoria will soon begin a $3.5 million trial to connect customised cars on public roads to data about traffic lights, speed limits and other factors.
While the technology has been tested on tracks, VicRoads states this will be the first ti... |
| Telstra announces $100 million deal to provide IoT SIMs for smart meters | Telstra has announced a $100 million deal to provide up to 4.1 million SIMs to Australian and New Zealand utility services company Intellihub for use in smart meters over the next decade.
The agreement is Telstra's largest IoT deal in terms... |
| Telstra Energy's Ben Burge to speak at IoT Impact conference on June 9 | Ben Burge from Telstra Energy will speak about accelerating Australia’s energy transition at the IoT Impact conference in Melbourne on June 9.
Burge will be the main speaker in a session looking at using the Internet of Things (IoT) to acce... |
| Not good enough: Why Telstra chose Starlink over nbn’s Sky Muster satellites | Image: SpaceX
Earlier this week Telstra became the first telecommunications business in the world to ink a partnership with Elon Musk’s Starlink. Despite NBN Co. already offering its own Sky Muster satellite services, Telstra didn’t think i... |
| IoT engineers – Telstra wants you | Telstra’s general manager of IoT product engineering, Alan Crouch, has put out a call for more engineers to join the telco’s IoT team.
Writing on Telstra’s Exchange blog, Crouch singled out the consumer market as a significant potential gro... |
