Telstra now streaming ABC, SBS to Next G mobiles

Starting today, Monday 7 June, Telstra is streaming ABC1 and SBS One TV channels over the Mobile Foxtel service on its Next G network.

Telstra will launch, next Sunday June 26, a range of Foxtel content to users of its T-Box connected to Telstra's cable broadband services, with the same offering to be available over Telstra ADSL a couple of months later, all quota free.

Telstra has released a range of mobile plans saying they "follow the creation last month of Telstra Digital, a new business unit to expand expand Telstra's online self-service offerings."Telstra announced in February that it would create a new online customer service unit within Telstra Consumer that will "design and operate online self-service platforms that give customers the option of performin

Microsoft and Foxtel today revealed that the cable TV platform would be offered as a streaming and video on demand service directly through Microsoft's Xbox 360 console.

The nation's number two telco Optus yesterday raised concerns about Foxtel's multi-billion dollar bid to acquire fellow pay TV operator Austar, claiming the merger would strengthen rival Telstra's ability to exploit bundled services. However, not everyone agrees with the SingTel subsidiary.

Insurance and banking company Suncorp has picked Telstra as its sole provider of mobile voice and data services for the next three years.

With Foxtel already Australia’s premier pay TV service, available on its own iQ2 boxes and the Xbox 360, Foxtel’s 50% owner is set to unveil Foxtel on its own T-Box from Sunday the 27th of June.

Australia’s love affair with social networking has gone mobile, with customers using their mobiles to visit Facebook, Twitter and MySpace in record numbers over the past 12 months, according to new figures released today by Telstra.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given the go-ahead for the acquisition of satellite TV provider AUSTAR by cable network FOXTEL paving the way for half Telstra owned provider to assume a dominant position in the pay TV space. The ACCC gave its blessing for the merger to proceed after accepting court-enforceable undertakings from FOXTEL.