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• iPhone delivers the goods for Optus and Telstra profit jumps 10%

  BNET - 2009-08-12

  SingTel announced yesterday that Australian subsidiary Optus recorded a 12% increase in revenue during 2008-09 due to a major gain in the number of mobile customers. The announcement comes as Telstra also released its results, announcing a 10.3% rise in full-year profit to $4.07 billion that it also pinned on...

  Tags: mobile, Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Telstra Corp., Optus, SingTel

• Optus hits 8 million mobile users

  BNET - 2009-08-12

  OPTUS has reached 8 million mobile customers, with users up 10.5 per cent on a year ago helped by consumer demand for smartphones. The telco's parent, SingTel, which reports its first-quarter financial results today, said 213,000 new mobile and wireless broadband customers signed onto Optus in the June quarter, including 139,000...

  Tags: Satellite, Optus

• Money up front - but innocents still locked in.

  - 2002-12-26

  Dec 26, 2002 (The Daily Telegraph - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian telcos Singtel Optus and Telstra will have their pre-paid mobile telephone plans investigated. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC will look into the plans after revelations that they lock consumers in for...

  Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, MARKETING, Optus, SingTel, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telstra Corp.

• Free to air big losers in landmark TV outcome.

  - 2002-11-13

  Nov 13, 2002 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has approved a deal that will allow pay television operators Foxtel and Singtel Optus to share content. Most companies associated with the deal saw their shares rise on 13...

  Tags: John Fairfax Holdings Ltd., Optus, SingTel, Telstra Corp.

• "Everything done" to please Fels.

  - 2002-08-28

  Aug 28, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Telstra has done all it can to satisfy the regulator on the planned alliance between Foxtel and SingTel Optus. So says Ziggy Switkowski, CEO of Telstra, which half-owns Foxtel, Australia's biggest but loss-making...

  Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Government, Optus, Regulations, SingTel, Strategy, Telstra Corp.

• Foxtel takes pay TV deal to regulator.

  - 2002-03-12

  Mar 13, 2002 The Sydney Morning Herald ABIX via COMTEX -- Australian pay television TV operator, Foxtel, has taken its deal with Singtel Optus to the competition regulator. On 12 March 2002, Foxtel, which is owned by Telstra, Publishing & Broadcasting and News Corporation,...

  Tags: Australia, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Optus, pay-TV, regulator, SingTel, Telstra Corp., TVs

• Fels talks tough over pay-TV shake-up.

  - 2002-03-11

  Mar 11, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Concerns about access to Telstra's broadband cable networks have been renewed. According to the Australian Film Commission, local content television producers and smaller pay television operators such as Neighbourhood Cable have expressed concerns...

  Tags: agreement, Australia, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Optus, pay-TV, SingTel, Telstra Corp., TVs

• The rebirth of pay TV.

  - 2002-03-11

  Mar 9, 2002 (The Courier-Mail ABIX via COMTEX) -- A new deal in Australia may ensure that pay television TV finally makes money. In early March 2002, a historic deal was organised between pay TV providers Foxtel and Singtel Optus. The deal could stop...

  Tags: Australia, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Optus, pay-TV, SingTel, Telstra Corp., TVs

• Pay-TV yet to pay off.

  - 2002-03-08

  Mar 9, 2002 The West Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- The Australian pay-television industry has undergone a reshuffle. An estimated 22 of Australian homes subscribe to pay-television, but that is unlikely to increase significantly unless Telstra, Singtel Optus, Foxtel and C7 can offer something...

  Tags: Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, Disney Corp., Foxtel, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Optus, SingTel, Telstra Corp., Village Roadshow Ltd.

• Foxtel wins in pay-TV carve-up.

  - 2002-03-05

  Mar 6, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- The two Australian pay television players, Foxtel and Singtel Optus, have ended eight years of intense rivalry. Under the terms of a new agreement, Foxtel will provide its pay television program package to...

  Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Optus, pay-TV, SingTel, Telstra Corp., TVs