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• Future in A$2.4bn Telstra share sale

  Financial Times - 2009-08-20

  Australia's sovereign wealth fund is to offload a A$2.4bn (US$2bn) stake in Telstra, the country's leading telecoms group, to diversify its portfolio, according to people familiar with the matter.The Future Fund yesterday began selling up to 647m Telstra shares at A$3.47 - a 5 per cent discount to its...

  Tags: Telstra Corp., Government, Vertical Industries, Telephony, Telecommunications, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Finance, Company News, Divestment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Times

• The Non-Geek Guide to the National Broadband Network | BTalk Australia

  BNET - 2009-04-12

  (10min 57) What does all this talk about the National Broadband Network mean? Why is it being built without Telstra? Why is the government looking at the structural separation of Telstra? What is Fibre to the Node and Fibre of the Home? And what the hell are DSLAMs? ...

  Tags: Telstra Corp., Broadband Network, Network, Broadband, Government, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Phil Dobbie

• Broadband Censorship, Copyright and Complaints | BTalk Australia

  BNET - 2008-12-03

  (19min 31) Simon Hackett, MD of Internet provider Internode, thinks the National Broadband Network will not, and should not, be built. On today’s BTalk Australia he explains his reasoning, in a wide ranging discussion with Phil Dobbie. You’ll also hear his views on Internet censorship, copyright infringements and the sharp...

  Tags: Telstra Corp., Copper, Censorship, Fibre, Network, Broadband, Simon Hackett, Net, Copper Network, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Phil Dobbie

• Telstra Needs Threat of Separation | BTalk Australia

  BNET - 2008-07-10

  Telstra has its detractors. One of them is telco industry analyst Paul Budde. In this edition of BTalk Australia Budde tells Phil Dobbie that he sees the structure and behaviour of Telstra as unique in the world. Budde believes there needs to be at least a threat...

  Tags: Telstra Corp., Paul Budde, Separation, Infrastructure, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Phil Dobbie

• Telstra Ponders Multiple Court Actions, Gears Up For Cyber Trials

  - 2008-03-10

  To Telstra's dismay, late last week, the justices of the High Court of Australia confirmed the constitutional validity of Part XIC of the Trade Practices Act 1974 and specifically its application to the Unconditioned Local Loop Service ULLS and Line Sharing Service LSS. The High Court...

  Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Government, Hacking, NETWORKING, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telstra Corp.

• Clear regulatory outlooks boosts Telstra

  - 2008-03-01

  The change of government in Australia has so far proved beneficial to Telstra Corp, which has used the breaking of a long-running regulatory stalemate to roll out faster broadband services and entrench is market position. Up to 952 exchanges across regional Australia are now in the process of being...

  Tags: Australia, broadband, Clear, Government, NETWORKING, SOFTWARE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telstra Corp.

• Did The Aussies Vote WiMAx Out?

  - 2007-12-11

  To most observers around the world, during the recent election in Australia, in which long-serving Conservative leader John Howard was ousted by new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Labor Party, the biggest issues were things like the war in Iraq and global warming. Equally, the election was...

  Tags: Australia, broadband, fiber, Government, network, NETWORKING, SOFTWARE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telstra Corp., WiMAX

• Regretting privatisation: Broadband and the 2007 election

  - 2007-10-01

  Telstra was sold barely a year ago, but both major parties want to bring the government back into the telecommunications infrastructure game. The Federal Government has responded to its own failure to reform the decade-old regulatory framework for telecommunications with an array of subsidies and initiatives to introduce high-speed broadband...

  Tags: broadband, Government, investment, network, NETWORKING, regulation, technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telstra Corp., Wi-Fi, WiMAX, WIRELESS

• Watchdog renews battle with telco.

  - 2007-06-07

  Byline: Susannah Moran Jun 07, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC says it has new legal arguments against Telstra to present to the Federal Court of Australia. Justice Annabelle Bennett ruled in April 2007 that...

  Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Government, MARKETING, Regulations, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telstra Corp.

• High-speed broadband to woo voters.

  - 2007-06-04

  Byline: Lisa Murray Jun 04, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Government may try to have a broadband network rolled out quickly. Australians will vote in a general election in late 2007 and a new broadband internet rollout...

  Tags: broadband, Government, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telstra Corp.