Telstra is touting its mobile broadband plans as a 'big hit,' with customer growth surging by 50 percent month-on-month since launch of the service in November last year.
Vodafone Australia has purchased independent phone retailer Crazy John's after reaching an agreement with the widow of the company's founder, John Ilhan.
Telstra has announced a rejig of some of its iPhone-associated data pricing, increasing the amount of data customers will be able to download without incurring excess fees, in the wake of Optus' success in the market.
Telstra and its mobile network supplier Ericsson claim to have proved the telco's 42Mbps mobile broadband claims are not all hot air, finishing a trial of the enhanced High Speed Packet Access technology.
Telstra's biggest reseller Vita Group owner of the Fone Zone and Next Byte retail chains won't ditch its main mobile phone supplier after the telco reportedly failed to win rights to the iPhone.
We've all experienced that irritating feeling upon walking into a nearly empty restaurant, only to see little 'reserved' signs on the empty tables, and to be told by the matre d' that no tables are available even as other people enter and are escorted to their tables.
Although 3G phones have been around for years, it appears the iPhone 3G has successfully rewritten the rules of competition in Australia's mobile sector whetting the nation's appetite for data.
For all the horror stories of farmers left stranded by the shutdown of the CDMA network, there are plenty of success stories.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
With the OPEL bid cancelled and procedural questions dogging the FTTN bid, Australia is currently in something of a technological limbo.
Since last November when iiNet very loudly launched its naked DSL product, "naked" has been on everybody's lips, and it seemed like everybody was in on it. Some, however have held out. This round-up of 13 ISPs looks into who's got it, who doesn't and who wants to.
With Telstra set to shut off its CDMA network we want to hear your comments and your experiences with the switch over to the Next G network.
The thriving community of Internet users that are opting for a 'Second Life' in virtual worlds are a tempting market for advertising. But is a virtual presence a viable option for big business?
If the world's homes are to enjoy the same high speed connectivity as its offices, the current thinking goes, then fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) will soon become necessary. However, not all Internet economies were created equal.
Ovum's David Kennedy says Australia can have a world-leading telecommunications regime if it wants one.
Here's a dollop of irony: the best Windows Mobile smartphone has been created by Palm! A bevy of OS enhancements and access to Telstra's Next G mobile broadband network easily make it the best Windows Mobile device we've ever used.
Far from being a mature technology, SMS is still in the "cave-painting" stages, according to Giri Ramachandran, head of alliances and market development for Telstra.
Vodafone Australia and Telstra Wholesale will conduct a network partnering trial which will see the two telcos share mobile base stations in central regional Victoria.
Telstra expects the increased uptake of the recently launched Blackberry wireless e-mail/data solution to help drive non-SMS data revenue from less than 10 percent to 70 percent of that achieved from SMS.
Telstra is boosting its mobile network to cope with the huge volume of SMS messages predicted for New Years Eve.
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