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  • Optus extends 3G mobile to rural Australia

    update: Australia's second largest telco Optus plans to spend between AU$500 million and AU$800 million to extend its third generation (3G) mobile coverage outside of Australia's capital cities to rural areas.

  • Telstra seeks 3G clarification

    Telstra has asked the federal government to clarify if it will regulate the telco's proposed AU$1 billion third generation, or 3G, mobile phone network.

  • Telstra expects to double 3G penetration by 2010

    Telstra expects to reach 60-70 percent penetration among its customers by 2010 for high speed third-generation mobile services, chief executive Sol Trujillo has told the Mobile World Congress.

  • Optus posts record profits, plans growth

    Australia's second largest telecommunications company Optus plans to tackle the impact of changing consumer behaviour by providing new technologies to drive revenue growth.

  • Livid Libs bat on G9's behalf for detail disclosure

    The government's bill to force Telstra to disclose its network information to rival companies so they can effectively tender for the national fibre-to-the-node broadband network was passed by the Senate yesterday.

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  • To 3, or not to 3?

    Hutchison has the only 'true 3G' network available in Australia, which they have imaginatively named '3'. Every phone company -- including Hutchison -- are adamant that people don't want to buy technology, but services. So we've put 3 through its paces.

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