by Tony Poulos | Jun 24, 2010 | Blog
Newspaper headlines in Australia proclaimed on Sunday that Telstra had signed a deal with NBN Co to transfer customers from its copper network onto the National Broadband Network’s fibre network and share Telstra’s infrastructure. Not surprisingly, a press... by Tony Poulos | Aug 7, 2009 | Blog
Australia’s giant supermarket and retail chain, Woolworths (no relation to its UK and US namesakes) is launching itself into the highly competitive mobile market by becoming an MVNO utilising the resources of Optus. In a move reminiscent of UK’s Tesco, Woolworths... by Tony Poulos | Jun 23, 2009 | Blog
Australians, long known for having the ‘gift of the gab’ (good talkers) are changing their habits and becoming a nation of prolific ‘SMSers’, according to Telstra’s State of the Nation Report. The report, which canvased 1,201 Aussies in May, investigated the use of... by Tony Poulos | May 13, 2009 | Blog
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is waiting for new powers to heavily fine telcos who keep ripping off customers – despite all the bad publicity, dreaming up ‘shonky’ (dubious) tariffs is a habit Australian telcos and ISPs... by Tony Poulos | Dec 16, 2008 | Blog
Australia has a history producing and exporting a few great movies and rather too many not-so-great TV soap operas. Our success may be down to a certain curiosity factor that attracts overseas viewers to the accents and inventive slang we use and the quirky social...