Aussie NBN Co/Telstra deal struck (maybe)

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...

Woolies warming up Aussie mobile market

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...

'Hot texting' gets Aussies into 'hot water'

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...