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Real world 5G testing around Albury Wodonga...
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Things are escalating quickly in Australia with Coronavirus. Today felt like a real shift in the situation. While Australia’s official number of infections still sits around 200 and deaths at just 3, it seems Australia is now doing everything it can to avoid being the next Italy. The Formula...
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Australia’s largest telco, Telstra, made a fairly important announcement this week. The company will increase its use of renewable energy, reaching 100% by 2025. Telstra joins a growing list of socially responsible companies that are setting this same 100% renewable goal. Google, Apple, Nike, Walmart, Starbucks, Salesforce and Visa...
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This afternoon, Telstra CEO, Andy Penn announced that the company was picking up the cost of firefighting heroes. Australia’s East Coast (where a majority of the population lives) is currently being impacted by some of the worst bushfires on record. Despite only being 1 month into Summer, the fires...
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This morning in the heart of regional Victorian town Wodonga, Telstra held a launch of their 5G network. The launch was attended by the Telstra area manager as well as the mayors from both sides of the border (Albury and Wodonga) who spoke about the potential business benefits 5G...
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When 5G first rolled out in Australia, it was in extremely limited locations. We’re talking a couple of blocks in a couple of the major cities, but fast forward a few months and the folks at Telstra have been busy. While they haven’t been terribly public about it, a...
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Australia connects to the rest of the world through a few high-bandwidth undersea cables. Each new cable expands our redundancy and potential connection speed. The latest undersea cable is the Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN). This week, the project reached an important milestone, moving from planning and approvals to...
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This afternoon was not a good one for technology in Australia. Core banking systems, ATM and EFTPOS terminals at checkouts across the country were unavailable. It seems while much focus is paid to redundant infrastructure for online services, there’s still a single point of failure in our finance network....
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The Federal Government gets a lot of things wrong, but one program that actually has a meaningful impact on people’s lives is the Mobile Blackspot Program. This program is now in its 4th round of funding and Telstra has been awarded funding to eliminate mobile coverage blackspots at 131...
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The telco battle to be first to roll out 5G first has been won. Telstra has announced tonight that they have switched on their 5G network across all major cities in Australia. While 5G will deliver stupid fast speeds to a ridiculous amount of devices, right now, you can’t...
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Telstra have announced updated plans today with the big focus on the elimination of excess data charges. When it comes to their SIM only plans, the A$69.00 per month plan is back and Telstra has a had a rethink on the branding. Gone is the contentious ‘unlimited’ branding, despite...
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In a somewhat surprising announcement, Foxtel have announced its own hockey-puck set-top-box, despite Telstra recently launching the Telstra TV 2. It’s a little like having Foxtel and buying internet from Telstra, or having Telstra phone or internet and being able to buy Foxtel from them. The lines may be...
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Telstra over-the-top strategy is to partner with US-based Roku to deliver solid hardware to the Australian audience. After a reasonably successful first generation of Telstra TV, things have moved on and in late 2017, 4K is expected. The second generation, the Telstra TV 2, is built on the Roku...
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Telstra has announced the international expansion of Telstra Air. From today Telstra mobile customers can access free Wi-Fi data at millions of hotspots with Telstra Air. Through a partnership with Fon, Telstra Air customers can connect to more than 19 million Wi-Fi hotspots for free, when travelling to more than 15...
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After the network interruption last Tuesday, Telstra is offering free data today, for the whole day, for everyone. The free mobile data is available from midnight to midnight and amazingly has no data limit. Basically the data logged against your account for the date of 14/02/16 will be erased...
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This week something important is happening in Adelaide. The first driverless car trials began on public roads in Australia, the first in the southern hemisphere. Volvo have turned up with their autonomous drive demonstration vehicle gives people a taste of things to come in the future. Internationally, there’s been...
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Roku may be a new name to many Australian’s, but internationally the device is a huge success. Telstra have partnered with Roku to bring the set top box to Australia and replace their T-box offering in the living room. Telstra TV, powered by Roku is a small, wallet-sized device that...
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It’s not everyday we get world firsts in Australia, but today we did. Telstra has shown off new wireless device, the first category 11 device that comes with a seriously increased data speed. This is capable of a stunning, theoretical speed of 600Mpbs. Telstra, in collaboration with NETGEAR, Ericsson...
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Telstra is Australia’s largest telecommunication company, but also one of the largest retail businesses in the country. We sat down for an exclusive interview with Telstra’s Director of Retail Operations, Andrew Smith. This interview took place during the same week ABC announced the closure of 300 retail stores in...
Real world 5G testing around Albury Wodonga...
Things are escalating quickly in Australia with Coronavirus. Today felt like a real shift in the situation. While Australia’s official number of infections still sits around 200 and deaths at just 3, it seems Australia is now doing everything it can to avoid being the next Italy. The Formula...
Australia’s largest telco, Telstra, made a fairly important announcement this week. The company will increase its use of renewable energy, reaching 100% by 2025. Telstra joins a growing list of socially responsible companies that are setting this same 100% renewable goal. Google, Apple, Nike, Walmart, Starbucks, Salesforce and Visa...
This afternoon, Telstra CEO, Andy Penn announced that the company was picking up the cost of firefighting heroes. Australia’s East Coast (where a majority of the population lives) is currently being impacted by some of the worst bushfires on record. Despite only being 1 month into Summer, the fires...
This morning in the heart of regional Victorian town Wodonga, Telstra held a launch of their 5G network. The launch was attended by the Telstra area manager as well as the mayors from both sides of the border (Albury and Wodonga) who spoke about the potential business benefits 5G...
When 5G first rolled out in Australia, it was in extremely limited locations. We’re talking a couple of blocks in a couple of the major cities, but fast forward a few months and the folks at Telstra have been busy. While they haven’t been terribly public about it, a...
Australia connects to the rest of the world through a few high-bandwidth undersea cables. Each new cable expands our redundancy and potential connection speed. The latest undersea cable is the Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN). This week, the project reached an important milestone, moving from planning and approvals to...
This afternoon was not a good one for technology in Australia. Core banking systems, ATM and EFTPOS terminals at checkouts across the country were unavailable. It seems while much focus is paid to redundant infrastructure for online services, there’s still a single point of failure in our finance network....
The Federal Government gets a lot of things wrong, but one program that actually has a meaningful impact on people’s lives is the Mobile Blackspot Program. This program is now in its 4th round of funding and Telstra has been awarded funding to eliminate mobile coverage blackspots at 131...
The telco battle to be first to roll out 5G first has been won. Telstra has announced tonight that they have switched on their 5G network across all major cities in Australia. While 5G will deliver stupid fast speeds to a ridiculous amount of devices, right now, you can’t...
Telstra have announced updated plans today with the big focus on the elimination of excess data charges. When it comes to their SIM only plans, the A$69.00 per month plan is back and Telstra has a had a rethink on the branding. Gone is the contentious ‘unlimited’ branding, despite...
In a somewhat surprising announcement, Foxtel have announced its own hockey-puck set-top-box, despite Telstra recently launching the Telstra TV 2. It’s a little like having Foxtel and buying internet from Telstra, or having Telstra phone or internet and being able to buy Foxtel from them. The lines may be...
Telstra over-the-top strategy is to partner with US-based Roku to deliver solid hardware to the Australian audience. After a reasonably successful first generation of Telstra TV, things have moved on and in late 2017, 4K is expected. The second generation, the Telstra TV 2, is built on the Roku...
Telstra has announced the international expansion of Telstra Air. From today Telstra mobile customers can access free Wi-Fi data at millions of hotspots with Telstra Air. Through a partnership with Fon, Telstra Air customers can connect to more than 19 million Wi-Fi hotspots for free, when travelling to more than 15...
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After the network interruption last Tuesday, Telstra is offering free data today, for the whole day, for everyone. The free mobile data is available from midnight to midnight and amazingly has no data limit. Basically the data logged against your account for the date of 14/02/16 will be erased...
Roku may be a new name to many Australian’s, but internationally the device is a huge success. Telstra have partnered with Roku to bring the set top box to Australia and replace their T-box offering in the living room. Telstra TV, powered by Roku is a small, wallet-sized device that...
