Telstra gears up for ad blitzkrieg
July 9, 2008
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.
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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.
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