• Children's liberties groups protest filter

    A number of Australian children's civil liberties and other groups have launched a significant protest against the Federal Government's plans to censor the internet through a filtering scheme.

    09 July 2009 05:08 PM

  • Tasmania must have NBN tender: Conroy

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy seemed to throw water on industry fears today that divvying up the Tasmanian National Broadband Network might not involve a normal tendering process, saying contracts would definitely be put out to market.

    09 July 2009 04:57 PM

  • UXC, Bilfinger score smart meter deal

    Powercor and CitiPower have announced UXC and Bilfinger Berger Services as field installation partners for their $400 million smart meter roll-out to over a million homes.

    09 July 2009 12:18 PM

  • Cheaper not to do VoIP: JB Hi-Fi

    Although JB Hi-Fi has rolled out an IP telephony-capable Nortel phone system across 120 of its 135 stores, it said it was cheaper to continue to use the legacy Telstra voice service than power up the VoIP feature.

    09 July 2009 10:21 AM

  • Telstra onshores Memo service

    A Telstra business service is to once again call Australia home after complaints were raised by customers.

    08 July 2009 04:59 PM

  • Vodafone reveals NZ iPhone pricing

    Pricing for the eagerly awaited Apple iPhone 3GS has finally surfaced from Vodafone New Zealand with the least amount upfront being NZ$399 for the 16GB model, if you sign up for a two-year contract at NZ$130 a month on an iPhone-specific plan.

    08 July 2009 02:59 PM

We, the customers are fed up! We've put up with a decade of declining service, spiralling costs and plain old bull&*%$ that Telstra keeps sprouting.

Telstra had it's chance ... and chose to screw everyone except the Exec team and Board.

From: Telstra calls for Telstra-funded telco judge

Read it here, then discuss it in Talkback.

  • Service Stream CEO resigns

    The chief executive of Aussie contracting group Service Stream has stepped down, following what he described as a "very disappointing" period for the company financially.

    08 July 2009 11:57 AM

  • Minchin expected NBN delays

    Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin today said that he was not surprised with the lack of progress shown thus far in the roll-out of the first leg of the National Broadband Network in Tasmania.

    07 July 2009 03:17 PM

  • Telstra scores $50m Visy contract

    Telstra announced today that it had won a five-year $50 million contract to provide a network services and cloud computing platform to packaging giant Visy.

    07 July 2009 12:24 PM

  • Greens renew call for Tassie ICT minister

    Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim claimed last week that the state was being disadvantaged by not having an information and communications technology minister.

    06 July 2009 03:51 PM

  • Basslink goes live; Aurora, Internode online

    The fibre-optic Basslink cable linking Tasmania to the mainland has officially gone live, with two customers, Aurora and Internode, hooked up to receive transmissions.

    06 July 2009 11:09 AM

  • TelstraClear to offer 3G through Voda

    Telstra's New Zealand subsidiary TelstraClear has signed a three-year deal with Vodafone, saying it will start offering 3G mobile services over the Vodafone network in the last quarter of this year.

    06 July 2009 10:24 AM

  • Conroy calls for NBNCo law feedback

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is seeking views on the legislative framework that will govern the National Broadband Network Company as the Communications Senate Committee dissects his first piece of NBN legislation.

    03 July 2009 06:34 PM

  • Union: Telstra to cut 100 Melbourne jobs

    Telstra is on the brink of axing 100 jobs from its Melbourne global operations centre, the Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) claimed today.

    03 July 2009 06:04 PM

  • Telecom NZ faces engineer protests

    Telecom New Zealand faced union protests in Auckland today in relation to its re-shuffle of engineering contractors.

    03 July 2009 05:56 PM

  • ACCC releases VHA merger justification

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released its public competition assessment of the Vodafone/Hutchison merger after approving the deal a month ago.

    03 July 2009 04:43 PM

  • Basslink misses 30 June deadline

    The Basslink fibre-optic cable linking the mainland to Tasmania is technically live, but hasn't yet carried one of its first major customer's traffic across Bass Strait.

    02 July 2009 05:46 PM

  • Backhaul tender cautiously welcomed

    Internet service providers (ISP), mobile telcos, and bidders for the $250 million regional backhaul build have welcomed the launch of the initiative, but questions remain over whether the plan will deliver competition.

    02 July 2009 05:53 PM

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