Optus has spent $103 million over the past three months bolstering its 3G network to support the one product category showing significant growth prepaid.
TelstraClear is spending around $NZ25 million putting its own equipment into telephone exchanges.
Telstra chief financial officer John Stanhope has said, subject to three key conditions, structural separation could benefit shareholders.
The Australian Competition Tribunal's (ACT) decision to wind back regulated access to Telstra's wholesale network has outraged the telecommunications sector.
Opinions are split amongst analysts, telcos and ISPs as to whether Pipe's new PPC-1 Sydney to Guam submarine cable will lead to lower broadband prices for Australians, but all agree the threat of its arrival, set for October, has had a positive impact already.
Telstra and TransACT will shortly begin offering 100Mbps broadband to many customers. By moving early, the companies have not only raised the bar for Australia's broadband services, but thrown down a challenge to a government that now faces increased pressure to deliver the NBN as promised.
Now that Minister Stephen Conroy has played his hand regarding Telstra's separation, the hard part begins.
Smack down: it seems the Independent Oversight Group (IOG) set up to keep an eye on Telecom NZ's regulatory undertakings as part of the operational separation of its business takes its task seriously.
Telstra's New Zealand arm TelstraClear is one strange company ...
One of the more curious aspects of the iPhone phenomenon has been the disconnect between the device's capabilities and carriers' willingness to support them.
While everyone was distracted by the NBN, a revolution was under way in the supply of fixed line broadband.
Loosening the regulatory controls on Telstra might actually make it easier to attract customers away from its copper network and onto the new and shiny National Broadband Network.
The early signs aren't that promising if the Rudd Government wants to get the private sector to invest in its new $43 billion National Broadband Network.
Telstra's decision to upgrade its cable definitely now means that the National Broadband Network won't get built. This policy has ceased to be, it rests in peace. This is an ex-policy.
Telstra will take every opportunity to both cast doubts on its rivals' capabilities and sow doubts in the minds of the legislators that might help to undermine the prospects of the displacement of its dominance of the fixed line space.
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