Telstra has signed a three-year, multimillion-dollar contract for voice communications with Brisbane City Council (BCC), which will see the telco giant manage all of the Council's fixed and mobile voice communications.
Ericsson Australia's financial picture grew a little bleaker last financial year, with revenues falling $200 million to $805 million roughly $600 million less than its Telstra Next G boon year of 2006, which netted it $1.4 billion.
Telcos have told stories today of bushfires crisping communications in Victoria while floods damage infrastructure in Queensland.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia's billion-dollar telecommunications deal recently inked with Telstra contains provisions allowing the bank to guard itself against any effects of regulatory separation in the telco's operations, the bank revealed this week.
Telstra is expected to appoint its enterprise and government chieftain David Thodey as its new chief executive as early as today, according to multiple reports.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
The government dumped its well-intentioned bidders and spent the day awash in adulation from an industry that suddenly felt all its Christmases had come at once. But isn't this the same government that, two weeks ago, was warning it had to ditch key election promises for lack of funding?
How much should Telstra be charging for unconditioned local loop?
The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
If there's one indication that customer relationship management (CRM) systems at telcos are screwed up it's got to be the phenomenon of the 'zero dollar' bill.
Mike Quigley and Doug Campbell's long-standing relationships with Telstra and few of its rivals will lead Australia's telecommunications industry to question privately whether Telstra will receive a phenomenal level of access to the NBN decision-making processes.
The level of ignorance from Australian politicians about technology can be staggering. Here's some of the worst examples we've seen, and a short recipe for resolving the issue.
Optus CEO Paul O'Sullivan had it right when he said that the new National Broadband Network would be a commercial failure unless there was only one network that included Telstra's fixed-line assets.
When Telstra launched its IT transformation in 2005, then chief operations officer Greg Winn said "IT is the root of all evil in the telco industry".
Net neutrality has the superficial attraction of 1960's free love, argues Telstra's Justin Milne, until you realise that one party gets all the gratification while the other bears all the costs.
On this episode of Planet CNET, we experience weightlessness, dissect a thousand dollar mobile phone and willingly wear spandex on camera.
The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.
Hutchison launched its '3' mobile service in Australia today, unveiling an aggressive pricing scheme which could possibly lead to a price war.
For the beige retail PC industry, there is a dark side to the idea of a PC as a whitegoods purchase.
Not convinced Apple's iPhone is the 'must have' device it's been heralded as? We take a look at a few alternatives that provide some advantages over the iPhone in its current incarnation.
Japanese electronics maker NEC unveiled a mobile video phone to coincide with the launch of Hutchison's third-generation (3G) high-speed cellular data service that offers video.
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