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Opinion
Telecommunications
Closing the gap: Vodafone’s desperate deal to catch Telstra and Optus
No matter how you interpret the $6.3 billion deal with Vocus, TPG - which owns the number three player in the mobiles market, Vodafone - is shrinking.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Telstra to axe almost 500 jobs in cost-cutting drive
Australia’s largest telco informed staff of proposed job cuts on Wednesday, marking the first major round of redundancies during chief Vicki Brady’s tenure.
- by Calum Jaspan
Analysis
Telecommunications
Telstra’s Starlink deal could signal a new era of connectivity in hard-to-reach places
Around 500 kilometres above your head, a mesh of fast-moving satellites could be the key to getting modern internet anywhere in Australia.
- by Tim Biggs
Telstra partners with Elon Musk’s Starlink for regional satellite services
The new phone and internet services may further strengthen Australian uptake of Starlink, which has emerged as a rival to the NBN’s own Sky Muster services.
- by Tim Biggs
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Telecommunications
Setback for TPG as competition tribunal blocks $1.8b landmark deal with Telstra
The Australian Competition Tribunal has declined to authorise a deal that would have let Vodafone owner TPG Telecom use Telstra’s towers in regional Australia.
- by Clancy Yeates
Opinion
PwC tax scandal
Does Switkowski have the mongrel needed to deal with PwC?
A lynch mob for PwC is growing. Will the appointment of veteran troubleshooter Ziggy Switkowski be enough to silence critics?
- by Elizabeth Knight
Unresolved mobile faults top list of telco customer gripes
Mobile services continue to be the most complained-about telecommunications category, according to the industry ombudsman, as Telstra suffers widespread outage.
- by Tim Biggs
Updated
Telecommunications
Telstra customers experience outage, unable to make or receive calls
Telstra says it has resolved an outage that left a number of its mobile customers unable to make or receive calls for up to 12 hours.
- by Olivia Ireland and Tim Biggs
From the Archives, 1993: Mobile phone network launches despite security objections
Australia’s first digital mobile phone network needed the government to override law enforcement agency objections to launch on April 27, 1993.
- by Bernard Lagan and Anne Davies
CBA and Telstra join forces to bust scam calls
The ‘Scam Indicator’, which will be piloted over the next few months, is aimed at protecting the two companies’ customers from phone scammers.
- by Millie Muroi