Optus chief executive Paul O'Sullivan has joined the current debate over Telstra's obligation to maintain rural telephone services, claiming telecommunications companies should be freed from funding the soon-to-be privatised telco.
Optus today assured its Australian workers their jobs were not under immediate threat following claims its call centres would be moved offshore.
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd chief executive Chua Sock Koong says the company has yet to decide whether or not to sell a stake in its Australian subsidiary Optus.
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Optus said that it and the industry would be keeping a sharp eye on any separation plans Telstra put forward to the government.
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If the sale of the SingTel Optus HFC network to the National Broadband Network Company goes ahead, it could mark the first significant strategic victory by the company since it lost the cable wars a decade ago.
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SingTel Optus has announced the availability of video on mobiles by March 5, and streaming video on mobiles by the end of April. This is all happening over its GPRS network, an apparent attempt to pre-empt the launch of Hutchison's 3G network later this year.
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Optus has defended its decision to enter the MMS market in the face of a report claiming current analyst predictions of market size are wildly inflated.
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