Telstra well placed to lead in LTE

The nation's biggest telco Telstra this morning revealed it had switched on the first hardware using the Long-Term Evolution standard for faster mobile access to its flagship Next G network, as debate in the industry about the so-called 'fourth generation' or 4G of mobile networks continues to swirl.

Australian security technology company (Senetas) has lost an annual contract from Telstra that would have been worth up to $3m in 2011 after Telstra decided to send the work offshore to India.

The head of Telstra Digital - the new unit created earlier this year to expand Telstra's range of online offerings and get more customers dealing with online - has unveiled a revamped Telstra web site.

  My company uses a wide-area Telstra private network. This is Australia's largest telecommunications carrier but maybe they don't visit their own site. As far as I can tell, Telstra's DNS server is not giving out any addresses for telstra.com – but differing Telstra departments say it's not their problem.  

For several years now I have been asking Telstra to bring femtocells to Australia as they eliminate blackspots via existing wired broadband, as Optus put Telstra and David Thodey’s claims of putting the customer first to shame by saying ‘yes’ to an Australian femtocell trial.

Telstra customers have come out big winners in the new agreement between the AFL and Telstra, with all matches available live to users with a Telstra T-Box, mobile phones or tablet from 2012.

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: TechnologyVideo technology company Ooyala - which will support Telstra's online video services and of which Telstra is a shareholder - has released a number of new products designed to help its customers better monetise their video content.

Today's deal between Telstra and the NBN Co may reverse some of the damage done to the Australian telco industry when the Howard government privatised Telstra, say the Greens.

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