Telstra plans to respond in a "measured way" to the competitive threat posed by voice over Internet protocol services, with the maximum net revenue effect on the carrier over the next 18 to 24 months "unlikely to be material" to its traditional voice revenues, senior Telstra executive Ted Pretty said today.
The pressure on Telstra's broadband business has ratcheted up a notch, with Sydney wireless provider Unwired today launching new 'high-speed Internet' plans targeting dial-up users and slashing its current broadband plan prices.
Telstra has flagged price reductions for its broadband products and services as it fights to maintain market share in the highly competitive sector.
Telstra has teamed up with Acer to add notebooks and laptops to its Next G range of devices, offering these machines on similar monthly contracts it sells mobile phones on.
Telstra today adjusted pricing for its wireless broadband service for the second time in as many months, introducing a new low-use entry-level plan and data shaping on higher use contracts.
Just a few days after the Australia Connected program was launched Communications Minister Helen Coonan was selling the initiative to the TV talk shows.
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It wasn't too long ago that critics of WiMax wireless technology were declaring it dead at the starting gate.
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Telstra is set to announce a large corporate deal with PricewaterhouseCoopers for its mobile business broadband service.
Australia's competition regulator has warned it will act to ensure technological innovations that pose a serious threat to Telstra's dominance of the telecommunications sector are not "strangled at birth".
In his role as Telstra's chief executive, Sol Trujillo is the most talked about and controversial telecommunications executive in Australia. ZDNet.com.au sister site CNET News.com sat down with Trujillo during a recent trip to the US to quiz him about wireless and handsets.
Broadband, wireless, the increasing prevalence of voice technologies, Web services .Net and Java based platforms - 2003 is already shaping up to be an interesting year.
Given the frantic activity and unpredictable movement of all kinds of hard objects within the pit, it's little surprise that the Holden Racing Team recently standardised on Panasonic's ruggedised Toughbook as its notebook platform of choice.
As long as you're a metropolitan broadband user, Telstra BigPond Wireless Broadband delivers well, but it can't be said to be an inexpensive broadband option.
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iBurst is a superb wireless broadband solution that's highly useful for the mobile business user, but users who don't require portability will likely find its price to be a deal breaker.
Telstra has quietly started offering two new ways of accessing its new nation-wide third-generation Next G mobile network, with two new USB modems now on sale.
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