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In , Telstra was named "most respected company" by the Australian Financial Review newspaper. This effort seems to have paid off with strong sales momentum announced in February As part of its new strategy, Telstra announced that its "goal is for customer service to be fundamental to everything we do".
The following table shows total complaints handled by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman TIO , and of those, the ones made against Telstra. In April , Telstra Digital relaunched its web homepage design. In October , Telstra's CEO David Thodey stated, "The rise of online and social media had 'fundamentally changed the way' which the company communicated with its customers". In February , Telstra introduced the ability to pay its bills via PayPal. In March , Telstra announced a new digital development program called "Digital First" with a stated aim to conduct 65 to 70 percent of its transactions online.
In September , Telstra announced the opening of a "Digital Transformation Centre" in Sydney to design and built new digital tools for its service systems.
In December , Telstra Digital launched customer service on Periscope. Telstra owns and operates a series of retail stores known as Telstra Stores.
Some are directly owned and operated by the Telstra Corporation and some are operated by licensees. As of May , Telstra has a total of retail stores across Australia. These designs include new displays, accessory shops, digital tickets and free baristas. In February , Telstra announced the creation of an additional retail stores within three years. In August , Telstra disclosed that "over " Telstra stores were equipped with low energy Bluetooth beacons.
These developments built on Telstra's T[life] concept stores it had launched in the early s. In October , Telstra launched a new brand identity and color scheme. This was followed by a "brand refresh" in February and again in Telstra was a major sponsor of the V8 Supercars car racing championship through its BigPond brand and directly sponsored the Sydney Telstra event, the final round of the series held at Sydney Olympic Park.
Telstra is also the principal sponsor of Swimming Australia. They also sponsored the Minardi team for the F1 season, and the Rally Australia Championships.
Archived from the original on 5 March First 1 2 Last. In , Telecom was renamed Telstra Corporation Limited. Retrieved 5 October Service for regional, rural and remote customers should be equitable in terms of speed, download capabilities and costs. Glenn Hunt Telstra will run extensive 5G trials on the Gold Coast during the Commonwealth Games in April, and the company's group managing director of networks, Mike Wright, told the Financial Review it expected to be offering 5G services next year.
In November , the Australian government sold the first tranche of its Telstra shares, 4. This sale is commonly referred to as "T1". In February, Telstra raised its dividend from 14c to In February , Telstra was reportedly seeking to reduce Sensis employment by to 1, positions. Shane Solomon left Telstra in Nov In December , Telstra signed an agreement with the federal government's A. Penn indicated new focus on growth in international markets, [] however this strategy experienced a setback with the failure of a joint venture to build a mobile phone network in the Philippines.
On 14 March , Telstra ended their talks between the company and the Philippine-based conglomerate San Miguel Corporation for a planned joint telecommunications venture in the Philippines due to several factors. In an interview in December , Penn declared that he was "no longer looking for a mobile phone footprint" [].
In , Telstra suffered a series of network outages [] [] [] for which the company apologised. Andy Penn's first year in office was not considered a success with multiple network outages and executive departures marring the company's reputation. In , the government raised the possibility that Telstra's regional mobile network may be forced to be opened to competitor' use under a roaming scheme. A prospect strongly being fought by Telstra. In February , Telstra announced a that revenue had dropped 3. Andy Penn also lost several senior executives since his appointment: Jason Laird, Telstra's communications manager and "chief social officer" was ridiculed in the press for his unrelated social media post during the results day.
Andy Penn called "a strong year". Unions, politicians, and the wider community condemned the move which was widely considered a last ditch attempt of Andy Penn to secure his own job. Telstra is Australia's incumbent and largest provider of fixed-line services. Telstra also owns and maintains the majority of Australia's public telephones. Telstra Mobile is Australia's largest mobile telephone service providers, in terms of both subscriptions and coverage.
Telstra's GSM network was the first digital mobile network in Australia. In , Telstra then Telecom Australia was the first company to provide mobile telephony services in Australia. This network only provided "car phone" capabilities to subscribers as portable hand-held terminals were not practical at that time.
This network at its peak had over 1 million subscribers, but was mandated by the government to be closed down by the year , partially due to privacy concerns which resulted from the AMPS technology, but also because of arrangements undertaken to secure sufficient interest in the GSM network licenses offered in to competitors.
A license condition placed on Telstra to maintain an equivalent coverage footprint at the time resulted in Telstra deciding to deploy an IS CDMA network in its place. Telstra owns 7, Next G Base Stations. Telstra Wholesale [] provides products such as Data , Mobile , Voice , and other Facilities including Co-location and Duct Access [] to other companies and organisations for re-sale. Telstra installed the first DSLAMs in exchanges prior to , and began wholesaling access in late Since , Telstra has wholesaled its 3G network. However the wholesale product only gives access to of Telstra's over base stations.
Telstra provides internet services for personal and business clients, through its internet service provider ISP , BigPond. At the end of the financial year, BigPond had over two million broadband subscribers. However, BigPond argued that the survey's structure had encouraged people to provide extreme opinions.
Since , the BigPond brand has been discontinued and merged with Telstra. Telstra owns and operates the largest cable internet network in Australia. The first was an increase of wholesale ADSL speeds from 1. In October Telstra launched "Belong", a low-cost internet service provider. Telstra also resell Foxtel's "Digital" to customers in Foxtel's service area as "Foxtel from Telstra". Such discounts can include free installation and the first month of the best Foxtel package all channels for free.
Sensis was previously Telstra's wholly owned advertising and directories arm. In management of the Trading Post was transferred to Telstra. In the printed Trading Post was shut down. Sensis also manages several websites including:. In , Sensis commissioned Amdocs to develop a customer interaction and database management system dubbed "iGen" to combine the existing GENESIS also known as POST system and the company's dozens of other internal customer and account systems into one interface. The new system would combine both Yellow Pages and White Pages directory information on one system.
In a blog posting he stated that they were ahead of the biggest system challenges and that iGen was "stable" and "operating effectively". Sensis announced job cuts in February of around roles nationally. The decision to outsource roles to India was described as necessary for restructuring purposes in the digital age.
In , Telstra launched "Blurtl", a Facebook application that allows the user to leave audio messages on their Facebook walls. In April , MOG , a subscription online music service and blog network, announced a partnership with Telstra offer their product in Australia — the first region outside of the United States to have access. Ericsson wins the LTE contract with Telstra.
Initial major LTE rollout complete. Incremental rollout continues, widening the coverage in capital cities and introducing new LTE coverage to regional centres. Telstra is reported to now be operating LTE facilities from more than 3, transmission sites. Telstra conducts the first live 5G trial in Australia with Ericsson, demonstrating 5G capabilities in a real world environment, including speed and beam steering tests.
In , Telstra announced a plan to upgrade its ageing networks and systems; which includes a new 3G network to replace the then current CDMA mobile network. The network was built between November and September , and launched in October As of [update] , Next G was the largest mobile network in Australia, providing greater coverage than other 3G providers in Australia and over three times greater than any 2G provider in Australia.
The network is currently [update] used for BigPond 's wireless broadband service and Telstra Mobile , which is Australia's largest mobile telephone service provider, in terms of both subscriptions [] and coverage []. The efficiency of the Next G network and its coverage has been challenged and scrutinised since its launch, requiring Telstra to go back to areas with average coverage, particularly rural towns to improve its coverage footprint. On 18 January , Stephen Conroy, Minister for Communications, declined the proposal for Telstra to switch off its CDMA network on 28 January , stating that whilst the Next G network provided coverage equal to or better than the CDMA network, the range of handsets available was not yet satisfactory.
While most wireless modems [] offered by Telstra allow peak download speeds of up to 7. On 1 January , Telstra launched, what it calls "4GX": In January , Telstra announced its acquisition of cloud service provider Kloud. Since the Australian telecommunications industry was deregulated in the early s, Telstra has managed to remain the largest provider of telecommunications services [] despite the emergence of its rival, Optus.
A Harvard Business Review article from authored by a consultant to Telstra on this topic, reported "that a strategy of offering lower rates on some routes and at certain times of day, even though its prices, on average, were higher than its rivals", helped Telstra retain several points of market share it otherwise may have lost. In early , Telstra successfully extended its market share lead by discounting its mobile phone products. He was replaced by David Thodey. Telstra has over subsidiary businesses as of 30 June The full list can be found at their website [].
In January Telstra launched WotNext, a video-publishing website that allowed users to upload videos. On 12 July , the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner OAIC released the findings of its investigation into a mailing list error that resulted in approximately 60, Telstra customers' personal information being sent to other customers.
The Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim said "Our investigation has confirmed that while Telstra breached the Privacy Act when the personal information of a number of its customers was disclosed to third parties; this incident was caused by a one-off human error. It was not a result of Telstra failing to have reasonable steps in place to protect the personal information of its customers, as required by the Privacy Act. The government probe determined that Telstra had security measures in place to protect customer personal information involved in mail campaigns.
These measures included privacy obligations in agreements with mailing houses, privacy impact assessments, and procedures to ensure staff handle personal information appropriately during mail campaigns. Therefore, I consider that Telstra has not breached this particular aspect of the Privacy Act", the privacy commissioner said. The commissioner determined that Telstra had acted "immediately" to prevent further breaches, notify customers, and review its data security practices.
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There is no option to purchase the Modem outright or on a monthly payment plan. The Discounted Price will appear as a credit on your monthly bill. If you choose to cancel your plan before the end of the Device Period you will need to pay the full Undiscounted Price x months remaining on Device Period. This remaining Modem cost will be applied as a lump sum on your final bill. You must connect for a minimum of one month.
Recurring monthly plan fees are charged until the end of the month in which you notify that you wish to cancel. You can find out which plans support sharing or you can opt-out of sharing altogether at any time by calling Speeds are throttled at a theoretical maximum of 12Mbps for downloads and 1Mbps for uploads. Service performance varies depending on network coverage and your location with speeds likely less than the maximum. You will be able to use the Backup service until the fault is resolved or for a period of 30 consecutive days whichever occurs first.
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