Trading Post guns for eBay in auction space
May 27, 2008
Telstra's directories and advertising business Sensis plans to open up its Trading Post website to online auctions and grab market share from industry leader eBay.
Telstra to outdo profit guidance
Telstra is expected to do better than its guidance when it reveals its annual profit results this week, as it increases revenue from its Next G mobile services.
Telstra shouldn't build, operate network
Optus boss Paul O'Sullivan says Telstra must accept the separation of its network and retail business if it is going to build a national broadband network.
No Telstra broadband 'on current terms'
Telstra is unlikely to win the right to build the proposed national high-speed broadband network if it insists on wholly owning it, an analyst says.
Telstra gives in on network plan
The major impediment to companies other than Telstra bidding for the $4.7 billion broadband tender looks to have been cleared.
Telstra dials up $1.9b profit
Telstra has increased its first half profit by 13 per cent and raised its guidance for full year revenue and earnings.
Telstra's T3 investors get their just...
With the final T3 instalment payments due within days, the end of government ownership of the telco is imminent.
Telstra dazzles with bumper profit
Telstra has reported a bumper 13 per cent lift in first half profit, surprising investors who lifted its shares by two per cent.
Telstra fires first shot at Canberra
There are signs the nasty days of brawling between Telstra and the Government may return.
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Telstra and Apple to bring iPhone 3G to Australia on 11 July
MELBOURNE, Australia—30 June 2008—Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, and Apple today announced that the highly anticipated iPhone 3G will be available to Telstra’s over 9 million Australian customers on 11 July. iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast* as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK.
Telstra gears up for ad blitzkrieg
TELSTRA'S outgoing brand chief and Sol Trujillo import, Bill Obermeier, will remain in Australia for at least two years to spearhead a "world leading" digital marketing venture to commercialise Telstra's 10 million customer base with the French-controlled advertising group Publicis Mojo.
Telstra hangs up on CDMA
Telstra mobile customers still accessing its CDMA network have less than two weeks before the analog service is shut down.
Gillard slams Telstra for ending EBA...
JESSE HOGAN AND CHRIS ZAPPONE The Workplace Relations Minister dismisses Telstra's rationale for ending talks with unions on collective agreements.
Telstra jumps Optus in mobile revenue
Telstra Corp Ltd's mobile phone revenue has surged, extending Australia's biggest telecommunications company's lead over rival Optus in the segment.
Telstra make $24.8b in sales revenue
Telstra's profit grew 13.3 per cent in the year to June 30, on a jump in mobile phone revenue as customers took up services with the Next G network.
Trujillo reaffirms Telstra 2008 guidance
Telstra Corp Ltd has reaffirmed its earnings guidance for the 2008 financial year and says its business continues to be in very good shape.
Telstra executive Burgess to resign
Telstra's head of public policy and communications Phil Burgess is leaving the company and will return to the US, due to illness in his family.
Telstra brands ACCC a 'rogue regulator'
Telstra Corporation has called the competition watchdog a rogue regulator which did not understand that much higher broadband speeds are needed immediately.
Telstra operational separation backed
Operational separation of Telstra's network, wholesale and retail arms was a valid way for the government to address the telco's dominance, an analyst says.
Telstra rivals slam broadband tender
TELSTRA'S competitors have lashed out at the Federal Government after it released details yesterday of the tender for a national $8 billion-plus broadband network which they...
Rivals kept busy as Telstra takes...
TELSTRA is raising the stakes in its attempt to lift the rent on its copper-wire telephone network by pursuing legal action almost every time the competition regulator releases...
Of Telstra, and Tricom
Telstra looms now that Murdoch and Packer's takeover plans for CBH have failed. Meanwhile, Babcock & Brown and ANZ move on Tricom.
Investors 'confident of Telstra moves'
Investors who made payments for the third Telstra share sale were showing confidence in building an integrated telecommunications company, according to the CFO.
Telstra expands China internet interests
Telstra Corporation has expanded its interests in internet advertising in China, acquiring a majority stake in two businesses.
Mobiles, wireless lift Telstra
Telstra profit grows 13% to $3.7b, helped by higher mobile phone and wireless data sales.