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Telstra's BigPond Twitter account hijacked
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

Telstra's ambitious foray into social media has backfired after its Twitter account was hacked and used to spread malicious links.

Medium puts rocket under the message
Source: 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 ads
Source: 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 box
Source: 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 split
Source: 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 lost
Source: 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 Telstra
Source: 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 outrage
Source: 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.

Last vestige of Trujillo era about to log off
Source: theage.com.au

TELSTRA will shut down as soon as today its propaganda website, sweeping away one of the last vestiges of the Sol Trujillo era.

Nation's web access cut after Telstra outage
Source: theage.com.au

Telstra's national internet network went down for an hour today, the company says.

Telstra reclaims Twitter profile from cybersquatter
Source: zdnet.com.au

Telstra has expanded its Twitter customer support footprint with the takeover of the @Telstra account.

Telstra reclaims Twitter profile from cybersquatter
Source: Cnet

Telstra has expanded its Twitter customer support footprint with the takeover of the @Telstra account.

Trading Post may cut print
Source: 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 access
Source: 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.

About Telstra - Media Centre - Announcement - Telstra's Australian-first MEOW adds bite to disaster recovery
Source:

Viners will recall the horrendous bushfires that swept Victoria in Febuary. A major horror factor was the breakdown in communications over vast area. Telstra the Nations priciple telecommunications company has introduced a mobile communications tower

Telstra drops Philippines call centre
Source: Australian News Network

A TELSTRA business service is to once again call Australia home after complaints were raised by customers.

There are 30m reasons why it's not about race, Mr Trujillo | theage.com.au
Source: The Age

Trujillo says he changed Australia. Not in the way he thinks. One change is that boards are going to be more wary of overseas appointments in future.

Top US CEO Sol Trujillo leaves Oz $30 million richer & slams 'racist, backward' Australia
Source: Yahoo! Finance

PM Rudd's simple response to Telstra boss American Sol Trujillo's leaving the telco (in which he earned over A$30 million) was "Adios" . Sol Trujillo has indignantly labelled Australia as "racist" and "backward".

Trujillo was a costly mistake for Telstra
Source: 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.

Internet glitch hits NT again
Source: abc.net.au

A major internet outage has hit Telstra's business customers across the Northern Territory.

'Offshoring' of data dangerous, say unions, Fielding
Source: 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 offshoot hires teen hacker 'Akill'
Source: theage.com.au

TelstraClear, Telstra's New Zealand subsidiary, has hired one of the worlds best known hackers - a teenager known as "Akill".

Telstra lost in the wasteland
Source: 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 wasteland
Source: 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 …

Fake Stephen Conroy lashes out at Telstra
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

Telstra's attempts to cover up the fact that it tried to silence Fake Stephen Conroy have backfired spectacularly.

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