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Retail Asia03/04/2018

Australia’s Telstra has launched what it says are the first 5G-enabled Wi-Fi hotspots in the world as part of its ongoing evaluation of 5G technology. The new hotspots on the Gold Coast in Queensland will provide locals and visitors with access to free broadband services during the evaluation period. The open hotspots will provide up to 10GB of […]

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Retail Asia26/01/2018

Australia’s Telstra, Ericsson and Ciena say they have achieved the world’s fastest speeds during a demonstration using Telstra’s transmission network in Melbourne. The companies achieved 400Gbps speeds over 61.5-GHz spectrum using Telstra’s transmission network, representing the highest spectral efficiency per fiber pair achieved in a live environment. This represents transmission speeds of up to 30.4Tbps per fiber pair, a significant […]

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Retail Asia23/01/2018

Australia’s Telstra has announced plans to invest in two new subsea cable systems connecting Hong Kong to the west coast of the US. The company will invest in a half fiber pair on the Hong Kong Americas (HKA) cable and the equivalent of 6TBps over the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN). The HKA cable is expected to […]

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Retail Asia07/11/2017

Telstra has announced the acquisition of GPS and telematics fleet management solutions provider MTData in a bid which the incumbent says will boost its IoT offerings in the global connected vehicle market. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. MTData was founded in 2003 and has operations in New Zealand, the US, Canada and the Middle East as […]

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Retail Asia27/10/2017

Australian operator Telstra has expanded the capability of its Telstra Programmable Network service with the introduction of a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and virtual branch. In partnership with VeloCloud, an SD-WAN provider based in the US, Telstra has introduced the ability for businesses to shift their branch network to the cloud. Telstra announced an investment in […]

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Retail Asia29/09/2017

Australian operator Telstra has entered into an agreement with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to become the exclusive connectivity partner for the ASX’s international trading services. The three year deal will provide ASX 24 Trading Platform customers access to Telstra’s Ethernet private line express (EPLX) solution, which purportedly offers some of the fastest network services […]

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Retail Asia22/09/2017

Australian operator Telstra has unveiled its new ‘Liberate’ service which will allow business customers to use their fixed line number and unified communications features on their mobile devices. According to GlobalData research, for every fixed line in business, there are 2.4 mobile lines. In addition, employees are also relying on personal devices and consumer technology […]

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Retail Asia11/09/2017

Telstra has promoted Carmel Mulhern to take on the added responsibility of the company’s corporate affairs group, in addition to her existing role as the company’s group general counsel. Mulhern will take over the role of group executive of corporate affairs from Tony Warren, who will leave Telstra on September 22 after serving the Australian incumbent […]

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Retail Asia18/08/2017

Shares in Australia’s Telstra slumped 10.6% to a five-year low of A$3.87 yesterday after the company warned it expects to take an A$3 billion ($2.36 billion) hit to its ebtida as a result of the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN). Telstra cut its planned dividend for the current financial year by 29% to […]

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Retail Asia04/08/2017

Australia’s Telstra has revealed that its 4G network now covers 99% of the nation’s geographically dispersed population. Following upgrades in regional areas of Western Australia, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia, the company’s 4G network now offers coverage across more than 1.4 million square kilometers, Telstra COO Robyn Denholm said in a blog post. Telstra is meanwhile […]

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Retail Asia14/06/2017

Telstra has acquired Company85, a UK-based technology services business and provider of data center, workspace, cloud, security and network services. Christopher Smith, executive director of Telstra’s business technology services, said the acquisition was aligned to Telstra’s strategy to grow its technology services business internationally and would significantly enhance Telstra’s service offering for UK and European […]

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Retail Asia31/05/2017

Australia’s Telstra has secured a contract to connect 29 sporting stadiums across the country using its nationwide Distributed Production Network end-to-end IP network for cable TV broadcaster Fox Sports. Under the long-term contract, Telstra will use the network to connect the stadiums to new Remote Production Hubs in Sydney and Melbourne. The deployment is expected […]

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Retail Asia19/05/2017

Australian operator Telstra has outlined its plans to offer SDN and NFV, cloud platform and data centers as well as global and Australian networks in one integrated and intelligent platform. At the ITW Conference in Chicago, Telstra outlined its planned network-as-a-service called the Telstra Programmable Network. This new network will be programmable at its core […]

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Retail Asia04/04/2017

Australian operator Telstra is drawing on the investments made through its venture capital arm Telstra Ventures to add five new SaaS solutions for its international enterprise customers. The suite of new applications is designed to better help companies as they go through digital transformation by offering solutions that reduce the cost and complexity of utilizing […]

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Retail Asia08/03/2017

Australian operator Telstra has entered a strategic partnership with US-based Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN company VeloCloud to help accelerate the adoption of SDN in enterprise networking. The partnership, which includes an investment from Telstra Ventures into VeloCloud, will enhance Telstra’s SDN and NFV capabilities in the APAC region. As part of the agreement, Telstra’s Chinese joint venture […]

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Retail Asia28/02/2017

Telstra has announced plans to launch LTE-Broadcast (LTE-B) services this year, and roll out the technology across Australia by 2018. The company is working with network vendor Ericsson to enable LTE-B in existing Telstra Media services this year. Telstra also plans to launch a 24×7 linear streaming channel using the technology, initially for certain compatible […]

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Retail Asia27/02/2017

At Mobile World Congress 2017, Australian operator Telstra announced it has selected Ericsson to support its major “Network of the Future” transformation program. Ericsson will supply equipment and services to support the program, which includes a nationwide optical network transformation and expansion. The program will also include 5G new radio (NR) trials, the creation of […]

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Retail Asia16/02/2017

Australia’s largest operator Telstra has reported a 14.4% decline in net profit for the first half of its financial year to A$1.79 billion ($1.38 billion), as the company dealt with an increasingly competitive market. Revenue for the six months ended in December fell 6.4% to A$12.8 billion, with fixed line revenue down 4.7% to A$3.3 […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2017

Hugo Barra, the international head at Xiaomi, is returning to Silicon Valley to head Facebook’s VR efforts, after spending three and half years in Beijing leading the Chinese smartphone maker’s global division. The announcement was made by Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg via his Facebook page last Wednesday. “I’m excited that Hugo Barra is joining Facebook […]

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Retail Asia01/02/2017

Australia’s Telstra has launched the world’s first commercial Gigabit LTE network in the central business districts of key state capital cities. The operator’s LTE-A network in these CBDs has been upgraded to support 4X4 multiple input multiple output (MIMO), three carrier aggregation and 256 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) on the downlink. The network also supports […]

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