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Telstra has acquired Company85, a UK-based technology services business and provider of data center, workspace, cloud, security and network services. Christopher Smith, executive director of Telstra’s business technology services, said the acquisition was…
Australia’s Telstra has secured a contract to connect 29 sporting stadiums across the country using its nationwide Distributed Production Network end-to-end IP network for cable TV broadcaster Fox Sports. Under the long-term contract, Telstra will use the…
Australian operator Telstra has outlined its plans to offer SDN and NFV, cloud platform and data centers as well as global and Australian networks in one integrated and intelligent platform. At the ITW Conference in Chicago, Telstra outlined its planned…
Australian operator Telstra is drawing on the investments made through its venture capital arm Telstra Ventures to add five new SaaS solutions for its international enterprise customers. The suite of new applications is designed to better help companies as…
Australian operator Telstra has entered a strategic partnership with US-based Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN company VeloCloud to help accelerate the adoption of SDN in enterprise networking. The partnership, which includes an investment from Telstra Ventures into…
Telstra has announced plans to launch LTE-Broadcast (LTE-B) services this year, and roll out the technology across Australia by 2018. The company is working with network vendor Ericsson to enable LTE-B in existing Telstra Media services this year. Telstra…
At Mobile World Congress 2017, Australian operator Telstra announced it has selected Ericsson to support its major “Network of the Future” transformation program. Ericsson will supply equipment and services to support the program, which includes a nationwide…
Australia’s largest operator Telstra has reported a 14.4% decline in net profit for the first half of its financial year to A$1.79 billion ($1.38 billion), as the company dealt with an increasingly competitive market. Revenue for the six months ended in…
Hugo Barra, the international head at Xiaomi, is returning to Silicon Valley to head Facebook’s VR efforts, after spending three and half years in Beijing leading the Chinese smartphone maker’s global division. The announcement was made by Facebook head Mark…
Australia’s Telstra has launched the world’s first commercial Gigabit LTE network in the central business districts of key state capital cities. The operator’s LTE-A network in these CBDs has been upgraded to support 4X4 multiple input multiple output (MIMO),…
Australia’s Telstra and Ericsson have separately demonstrated secure end-to-end encryption over 10Gbps intercontinental link. The companies encrypted data in transit at 10Gbps between Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia using Ciena’s ultra-low latency 10G…
Australia’s Telstra will introduce assured availability on two of Asia-Pacific’s busiest subsea cable routes, Hong Kong to Singapore and Japan to Hong Kong. The company announced its new Always On service guarantee at the Pacific Telecommunications Council…
The Australian government will exclude the market’s largest operator Telstra from taking part in a digital dividend auction of 700-MHz spectrum, on the advice of telecoms regulator ACMA. ACMA held that because Telstra already owns more than 50% of available…
Telstra has named Robyn Denholm as its new chief operations officer, replacing Kate McKenzie, who retired in July after working with the Australian incumbent for 12 years. Denholm will assume her new role in early 2017, and will be based in Sydney. Acting COO…
A customer of Australia’s Telstra was given the honor of switching off Telstra’s 2G GSM network last week. The customer, Oly Gordon, became a viral sensation after posting to Telstra’s Facebook page that he was still operating a Nokia 3315 2G phone after 13…
Private information on Australian mobile subscribers are being sold off by unscrupulous members of offshore call centers, according to an investigative report. The private details of customers from the market’s three operators – Optus, Telstra and Vodafone –…
