Optus Invests in Tasmania – Optus has announced an investment of $25 million in Tasmania to challenge the dominance of Telstra there. The investment was promised years ago but is only now being realised. “With this significant expansion we will be the only mobile carrier capable of challenging the incumbent’s network reach in Tasmania,” the [...]
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Posted in Mobile Phones
Smartphones Could Be Making You Sick – There is rapidly-growing demand for information about the health effects of radio frequency energy – so much so that early next year Australia’s largest mobile retailer Telstra will publish comparison data on mobiles’ “specific absorption rate”. Consumers for the first time will be able to analyse phone SAR [...]
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More Australians Stop Using Land Lines – The number of people ditching their fixed line telephone in favour of mobiles is bigger than thought, with just two-thirds of young Australians connecting their copper wire line when they move out of home. About 14 per cent of mobile phone users don’t have a fixed line telephone [...]
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Telstra Launches Android Tablet – Pitched as the “most affordable wireless tablet” from an Australian telco the T-Touch runs Android 2.1 and in addition to access to the Android Market it includes a multimedia hub application for watching video clips, Mobile Foxtel and movies. Telstra executive director for its consumer business Rebekah O’Flaherty says there [...]
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National Broadband Network Faces Delays – Ms Gillard said any delay would hurt consumers and small businesses. “So we are urging the opposition today to not delay this bill,” she told reporters in Canberra. “Do not delay and cause extra days of higher prices and less choice, particularly for those Australians who live in our [...]
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