News (90)

  • Next G now more popular than CDMA: Telstra

    Telstra has revealed that for the first time, there are more subscribers to its third generation Next G network than its 2G CDMA counterparts, with over one million users adopting 3G technology.

  • Timeline: Telstra's path from CDMA to Next G

    It's been a long road to the closure of Telstra's CDMA network. ZDNet.com.au takes a look back at how it all happened.

  • Telstra Next G audited as CDMA closure looms

    Telstra claims its controversial Next G network is now officially better than its soon-to-be-defunct CDMA equivalent, after the telco sent a team to audit network coverage. Now government testers are hot on their heels.

  • Coonan talks tough on Telstra CDMA

    Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan has again warned that Telstra must not jeopardise CDMA coverage to customers in regional and rural areas as the telco prepares to switch off the network in favour of its third generation mobile network.

  • Telstra hunts down Next G dropouts

    In the latest endeavour to encourage its remaining CDMA users to move to Next G, Telstra will be contacting users experiencing a number of dropouts on its 3G network to try and solve their problems.

Blogs (9)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    In CDMA hubbub, don't forget the broadband

    Last week, a family friend rang for some technical help. "Telstra sold me this wireless Internet service and they promised it would work both at my home and at my office," he said. Said home is in the Melbourne CBD, and said office is in Kyneton, a lovely town about an hour away from Melbourne.

  • Read the blog post - Jude Willis

    Telstra not sure if Next G works in the bush

    For all the horror stories of farmers left stranded by the shutdown of the CDMA network, there are plenty of success stories.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    2008: The year of making good

    It has been a busy year in telecoms, whether because of the increasingly bitter relationship between Telstra and the government; the awarding of the contentious but (finally) progressive broadband contract to OPEL; the pivotal election that led to a change of government; or the move of 3G mobile technology into the mainstream at last.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    CDMA? Enough of the bad language

    The day of reckoning finally arrived for CDMA -- and was then postponed, leaving everyone with any strong feeling on the subject a nice window of three months to once again enjoy the semantic back-and-forth the closure provokes.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Fit for purpose, not just for headlines

    With the OPEL bid cancelled and procedural questions dogging the FTTN bid, Australia is currently in something of a technological limbo.

Features and Case Studies (12)

  • Video: Sol Trujillo remixed

    Independent video series Two-Minute Mobile satirises Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo's time so far at the top of Australia's largest telco in this short film.

  • Telco 2008: A year in review

    2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.

  • More great Phil Burgess quotes

    After we published a list of the funniest and most biting public comments by Telstra's bombastic public policy chief Phil Burgess last week, a number of ZDNet.com.au readers wrote in suggesting more.

  • Meet Mr. I-mode

    Because of bets NTT's Kei-ichi Enoki laid down years ago, the Japanese carrier is leading the way in mobile phone evolution.

  • Upwardly mobile

    Videoconferencing at the beach may still be a pipe dream, but the mobile workforce is here today. ZDNet Australia examines how businesses are reaping the benefits of mobility.

Reviews (28)

  • Telstra boosts Next G reach

    Telstra has unveiled an upgrade to its Next G mobile high-speed data network that it claims has delivered download speeds of up to 2.3Mbps at a range of 200km.

  • Telstra's blue tick phones

    Check out our reviews of the Next G mobiles that Telstra recommends for use in rural areas.

  • BigPond Next G Wireless Broadband Mobile Card

    Fancy a 1.3Mbps broadband pipeline direct to your notebook, without a cable in sight? The new BigPond wireless data card makes good on Telstra's lofty promises for its Next G network.

  • Telstra extends 2.5G loop

    Telstra is expanding its 2.5G CDMA network to cover 98 percent of the Australian population, in a process expected to be completed by the end of the year.

  • Hutchison outsources Australian 3G operations

    Hutchison Telecoms, which owns Orange, has outsourced the operation of its Australian mobile networks to Ericsson Australia in a seven-year deal that is expected to save the telco over AU$40 million.

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