Medium puts rocket under the messageSource: theage.com.au
THE fellow who runs telcovictims.com is not happy. Created after 12 months of frustration with Telstra's customer relations, the gripesite - motto: ''Fighting back at Telstra et al'' - is a forum for people's disaffection with telcos and internet service providers.
Google Maps to be plastered with adsSource: The Sydney Morning Herald
THEY know where you are and where you have been but now, with the help of internet mapping technology, advertisers are trying to predict what you want.
Telstra to roll out set-top boxSource: Australian News Network
TELSTRA is believed to be planning to launch a personal video recorder and set-top box, likely to be called the T-box, as early as December, in a bid to shift the entertainment, news and sport content it offers under the BigPond brand from people's computers to their televisions.
PM uses 'dead hand of socialism' in Telstra splitSource: Australian News Network
LATE last year, when Telstra was in a standoff with the Rudd government over its plan for a super-fast national broadband network, a business executive asked a senior minister how the government could be sure it would win the stoush.
Cables cut: Sydney phone, internet services lostSource: theage.com.au
Thousands of businesses and homes in Sydney's CBD could be without phone, internet and mobile phone coverage for up to a week after a contractor accidentally severed crucial cables.
Conroy moves to split TelstraSource: abc.net.au
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has put the Government on a collision course with Telstra, warning the telco giant to split its wholesale and retail arms, or face business restrictions.
Telstra outage causes outrageSource: Australian News Network
A BIGPOND internet outage that affected a suburban neighbourhood in southern Perth for almost a week has raised questions about Telstra's customer complaint handling systems.
Trading Post may cut printSource: Australian News Network
THE fate of Telstra-owned classifieds bible The Trading Post has again been put into doubt with separate industry sources claiming the weekly newspaper faces closure before the end of the year, as early as October.
Telstra admits denying accessSource: Australian News Network
TELSTRA could face a fine of up to $300 million after admitting to the Federal Court it was guilty of misleading and deceptive conduct in denying competitors access to its copper network.
Trujillo was a costly mistake for TelstraSource: zdnet.com.au
I think we can now conclude that, on balance, Telstra went backwards during the Trujillo era, and that the board's decision in June 2005 to sack Ziggy Switkowski and install a team of expensive Americans to run the company was a mistake.
'Offshoring' of data dangerous, say unions, FieldingSource: Australian News Network
TELSTRA'S main union is lobbying the federal Government to make amendments to the Privacy Act in a bid to ensure local jobs are kept in Australia as the telco prepares to close the door on 366 regional call centre jobs.
Telstra lost in the wastelandSource: zdnet.com.au
Last Friday, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announced to the national media that the National Broadband Network was not a dead parrot, countering my suggestion earlier that week that it had kicked the bucket, had ceased to be and was pushing up daisies, etc, etc.
Alan Kohler: Telstra's fake wastelandSource: Business Spectator
Last Friday, Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announced to the national media that the National Broadband Network was not a dead parrot, countering my suggestion earlier that week that it had kicked the bucket, had ceased to be and was pushing up daisies, etc, et …