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Telstra Launches BigPond's 24/7 Online and Mobile News Channel

Telstra is the first to deliver to customers an online 24/7 news channel. Thus, any Telstra 3G and Next G mobile customer that has a compatible handset can subscribe to BigPond Live TV News for 4.95 Australian dollars per month, or 1.95 Australian dollars for a day pass. The channel will also be available online on B...

9 October 2008
10:55 GMT

Telstra to Provide Downlink Speeds of 21Mbps by the End of 2008

Telstra, Australia's largest mobile carrier, has just announced that its planned eHSPA (enhanced HSPA) network is on track for commercial deployment before the end of 2008. The new network, based on Telstra's already established Next G network, is said to bring data transfer speeds of up to 21Mbps in downli...

7 October 2008
07:01 GMT

Telstra Invites Users to Go Smarter and Greener

Preoccupied with climate change and the impact people have on the environment, Australia's largest mobile carrier, Telstra, has recently launched a campaign and a website called “Smarter, greener, together.” This comes on the heels of a study showing that the telecommunications industry is capable of...

2 October 2008
10:04 GMT

Telstra Opens Its Next G Network for Pre-Paid Customers

Australian mobile users who want to benefit from the high speeds of Telstra's Next G network without being tied by contract agreements, will soon have the chance to do so. Telstra has announced that it will open its network for pre-paid customers too, so that not only the post-paid ones can access it. The s...

16 September 2008
06:24 GMT

Telstra Launches New and Super-Fast USB Modem

Australia's largest mobile carrier, Telstra, has announced the availability of a new USB modem for its customers. Manufactured by the Richmond-based Canadian company Sierra Wireless, the new product comes under the official name of "Telstra Turbo 7+ USB Series Modem" and it's targeted towards mobile busines...

12 September 2008
08:36 GMT

Telstra's GPS-enabled Handsets to Go Garmin

While the world is still waiting for the first-ever Garmin phone to be launched, Australian mobile users might be pleased to find out that Telstra, the largest mobile carrier in their country, has striken a deal with Garmin, via Sensis, in order to improve the capabilities of its GPS-enabled handsets.Following the ag...

8 September 2008
13:13 GMT

Spore Origins Has Hit Australia

Australian fans of Electronic Arts' brand new and much talked-about Spore video game now have the chance to play its mobile version too, namely Spore Origins. Telstra has just announced that, via its subsidiary BigPond, it is offering the mobile game to any of its subscribers owning a Next G handset and willing ...

4 September 2008
11:20 GMT

Australia's Palm Treo Pro Is Blue Tick Approved

Today, Treo Pro, Palm's latest and greatest smartphone, was confirmed by Telstra, Australia's largest mobile carrier, to be Blue Tick approved. This means that the handset is "recommended" by the carrier for usage all over Australia (metro and rural areas included), being the first Next G smartphone to get ...

4 September 2008
08:54 GMT

Telstra Prepares to Introduce Mobile Payment Services

Telstra, Australia's largest mobile carrier, announced today that, together with Visa and NAB (National Australian Bank), it intends to offer mobile payment options to its customers. The Australian carrier has launched a mobile payment trial, which involves a group of merchants and consumers from Melbourne Dockl...

27 August 2008
20:41 GMT

BlackBerry Bold Available for Business Customers in Australia

BlackBerry Bold 9000, the newest and coolest smartphone manufactured by the Canada-based RIM, is now available in Australia, for Telstra's business customers. The largest Australian mobile carrier is selling the handset for a recommended retail price of 999 AUD (about 870 USD or 590 Euros). The Bold can also b...

18 August 2008
02:59 GMT

Telstra Unleashes MP3 Downloads in Australia

Telstra, the largest mobile carrier in Australia, announced the availability of a new and huge online collection of MP3s, via its subsidiary BigPond. In consequence, the BigPond Music store now allows music lovers to search and download songs (in MP3 format) from the most famous record labels in the world: Sony BMG, ...

14 August 2008
08:42 GMT

Telstra Streams Horse Races on Mobile Phones

Telstra, the leading Australian mobile operator, announced that as of today (the 1st of August), its subscribers can stream live horse races directly on their Telstra 3G and Next G handsets. This "sports offering" comes after an agreement with ThoroughVisioN (also known as TVN) and is available via Telstra's sub...

1 August 2008
11:09 GMT

LG KF390 Gets an Australian Release

Telstra, the largest Australian mobile operator, has announced the release of a new LG handset to work on its fast Next G network: LG KF390. The phone will be offered in Australia only by Telstra and it was added to the carrier's Blue Tick family of devices. This means that it can be used in rural and remote are...

31 July 2008
03:42 GMT

BlackBerry Bold Officially Hits Australia

Telstra, Australia's largest mobile carrier, has issued today a press-release that contains both good and bad news for the mobile users in the country (or at least for those users who like BlackBerry handsets). The good news is that the much-talked-about BlackBerry Bold 9000 has reached Australia and is already...

28 July 2008
11:12 GMT

Samsung U900 and LG KF700 Released by Telstra

Telstra, the largest mobile operator in Australia, has recently released two new cool mobile phones to work on its Next G network: Samsung U900 Soul and LG KF700. The handsets are offered by Telstra under the names of Samsung U900T and LG KF700Q respectively. Both are sliders and both are available for retail prices ...

16 July 2008
09:32 GMT

Telstra's iPhone 3G Released on July 11, Even For Free

Telstra is the last Australian mobile carrier to announce the upcoming launch of Apple's new iPhone 3G in Australia, after Optus and Vodafone have already presented their 3G iPhonesque plans. While both Optus and Vodafone announced the iPhone 3G since June 9, Telstra got official with Apple's new handset no...

30 June 2008
06:41 GMT

HTC Touch Diamond Hits Australia in August

HTC Touch Diamond, the new and fashionable Pocket PC unveiled by HTC on the 6th of May in London, will be available in Australia starting mid-August. The handset is offered only by Telstra, the largest Australian mobile carrier, and will be available through all its shops and dealers across the Southern Hemisphere co...

27 June 2008
11:44 GMT

Telstra Loves iPhone 3G Too

When Apple officially presented its new iPhone 3G, on June 9, it also unveiled the carriers to sell the handset around the world, starting July 11. At that time, only Optus and Vodafone were announced to offer the iPhone 3G in Australia, leaving out Telstra, the country's largest mobile operator. But Telstra ...

20 June 2008
04:52 GMT

Clumsy Australian Mobile Users Get Coaching Service

Leveraging on the fact that lots of mobile users don't actually know how to use all the features included in their handsets, Telstra, the largest Australian mobile carrier, has launched a new service that can instruct you in becoming more informed on what your handset can do for you. Don't really know wha...

13 June 2008
09:46 GMT

Telstra Enhances Its Next G Network

Telstra, Australia's leading mobile carrier, together with Ericsson, have announced a new feature for the Next G Australian network, namely the so-called 3G Direct Tunnel. This 3G Direct Tunnel will allow Telstra's network to function at an increased capacity and, therefore, to support the continuously grow...

11 June 2008
11:02 GMT

Palm Centro Turns Australian

Palm recently announced that the popular Centro smartphone is getting a release in Australia, via Telstra, the country's largest mobile operator. The Centro will be available for 299 Australian dollars (about 287 USD), starting May 26 - apparently only for the Pre-Paid customers of Telstra. Centro is the sm...

21 May 2008
08:20 GMT

i-mate Ultimate 8502 and Ultimate 9502 Available via Telstra

Telstra, the largest mobile carrier in Australia, announced the availability of i-mate Ultimate 8502 and i-mate Ultimate 9502, being the first operator in the world to offer these handsets. Telstra currently has almost 10 million subscribers, which means half the population of Australia, and, by releasing these two ...

18 February 2008
10:01 GMT

Is the iPhone Ready For Australia?

Apple's iPhone is definitely one of world's most important mobile devices released in the last few years, and despite this, the handset didn't get the chance to reach all the big mobile markets until now. One of these markets is Australia, where users can't enjoy the iPhone for the moment unless t...

23 January 2008
10:08 GMT

World's Fastest Next G Download Mobile Phones

Telstra will bring the best of Next G technology with the introduction of six mobile phones that will use this technology. As a result, the operator's Next G range will grow around one third, including some handsets capable of offering the world's fastest 3GSM data download speeds.7.2Mbps is currently the h...

5 November 2007
06:37 GMT

Mobile TV Solutions from Telstra

Telstra will make it possible for people living in Australia to benefit from the possibilities of mobile TV too from now on. With BigPond TV, users of this company's 3G and Next G networks will be able to watch programs on their handsets, just as many others across the globe who already do that.A TV model can be...

19 July 2007
10:31 GMT

Mobile Phone Web Browsers Bring Missy Higgins Live

It is the first time when a concert is being broadcasted live over the mobile Internet. This makes Missy Higgins the first artist to hold a live concert on the small display screens of cellulars.Ok, it might turn out to be far from the thrills that a real live concert are supposed to give the viewer. Still, this prov...

4 June 2007
04:37 GMT




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