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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 Productivity Gap | BTalk Australia

  BNET - 2009-02-03

  (14min 40) Telstra has just released "The Telstra Productivity Indicator: A report on business attitudes toward improving productivity in Australia", highlighting what is termed the productivity gap. An accompanying economic white paper shows the link between productivity gains and investment in information and communication technology ICT. In...

  Tags: Telstra Corp., Mobile, Productivity Improvement, Productivity, Video-conferencing, Information And Communication Technology, Term, Organization, Take-out, Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Strategy, Marketing, Finance, Management, Phil Dobbie

• 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

• Consumers continue to reap benefits from competition in telecommunications.

  - 2007-06-13

  M2 PRESSWIRE-13 June 2007-ACCC: Consumers continue to reap benefits from competition in telecommunicationsC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13062007 Australian consumers continue to reap the benefits from competition in telecommunications, according to two reports issued today by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission....

  Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, benefit, broadband, carrier, investment, mobile, network, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, Telstra Corp.

• AFIC to build up resource stocks.

  - 2007-02-07

  Byline: Scott Murdoch Feb 07, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Listed investment group Australian Foundation Investment Company AFIC has reported a 22.8 rise in first-half operating profit to $A106.8m. Shares in AFIC increased $A0.07 after the announcement on 7 February 2007....

  Tags: ABC Inc., FINANCE, Investment, National Australia Bank, stock, Telstra Corp., Woolworths

• What general counsel want.

  - 2007-02-05

  Byline: Shaun Drummond Feb 05, 2007 (Lawyers Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) -- In-house counsel report that the regulatory environment is growing more onerous. David Krasnostein, of National Australia Bank, says companies need "frank and fearless" legal advice to cope with huge amounts of...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, Investment, National Australia Bank, Regulations, SECURITY, SSL/TLS, Telstra Corp.

• What a difference a decade makes.

  - 2006-12-21

  Byline: Nina Wan Dec 21, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian sharemarket has been transformed dramatically over the last 10 years. Australian equities had a market capitalisation of approximately $A356 billion in 1996, whereas in late 2006...

  Tags: Banking, equity, FINANCE, Investment, merger, News Corp., Telstra Corp.

• Resources cushion Korean fallout.

  - 2006-10-09

  Byline: Nina Wan Oct 09, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- South-east Asian markets fell on 9 October 2006 following news that North Korea had conducted a nuclear test. Australia was no exception, although rises in a range of...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, National Australia Bank, stock, Telstra Corp., Woolworths

• ACCC 'perplexed' by Telstra decision on fibre-to-the-node investment.

  - 2006-08-07

  M2 PRESSWIRE-7 August 2006-ACCC: ACCC 'perplexed' by Telstra decision on fibre-to-the-node investmentC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07082006 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is perplexed by today's announcement by Telstra that it has unilaterally decided to discontinue talks with the ACCC...

  Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, Pricing, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telstra Corp.

• ACCC reassures industry on fibre to the node discussions with Telstra.

  - 2006-04-13

  M2 PRESSWIRE-13 April 2006-ACCC: ACCC reassures industry on fibre to the node discussions with TelstraC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13042006 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today reassured the telecommunications industry and the public that decisions about access to any fibre-to-the-node network...

  Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, FINANCE, Investment, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telstra Corp.