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As a teen, my father would pull the power out of the modem at 9pm, depriving me of my ever so necessary ADSL1 connection to avoid late nights watching cats fall into swimming pools. I would berate him, as precocious youths are wont to do, for h...
read more...29/10/2012 03:44 AM
Telstra announced a strong finish for financial year 2011-2012, with 1% growth fromt he same period last year, despite a steep drop off in fixed telephony. Most of the growth came from mobiles, as expected, but there was also a small profit made from...
read more...13/08/2012 05:48 PM
Millions of Australians were affected yesterday during a major outage of the Telstra network.From around 1.50 PM in the afternoon Telstra, iiNet, and Dodo customers could not access the internet. A Telstra spokesperson said most customers w...
read more...24/02/2012 11:00 AM
Telstra customers lost access to webmail and online billing over the weekend after a privacy breach forced the telco to take drastic action.A Whirlpool user stumbled onto a Telstra database following a routine Google search and found the personal det...
read more...12/12/2011 02:42 PM
BigPond is expanding its 100Mbps cable broadband service beyond Melbourne to Adelaide, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney and Perth.Perth customers can expect the upgrade from 30 November, while Adelaide, Brisbane and Gold Coast customers will have to wait...
read more...28/11/2011 01:55 PM
Telstra has expanded the Foxtel on Xbox service to ADSL customers in areas of NSW and Victoria, announced BigPond movies coming soon to tablets, and launched a new iPhone app.Foxtel on Xbox, a service giving subscribers 30 television channels and mov...
read more...10/10/2011 03:10 PM
From Sept. 21, 2011 existing and new customers to Telstra BigPond will receive higher data limits on their broadband plans. The most important change to BigPond’s offerings is the inclusion of a 500GB plan on all of its fixed broadband connecti...
read more...27/09/2011 11:21 AM
Telstra recently announced it will be offering 24/7 365 day per year customer support via Twitter and Facebook. Some people may think this is just another way for the giant telecommunications company to shirk its responsibilities, while others see it...
read more...18/08/2011 03:11 PM
Beware of callers claiming to be from Telstra or BigPond as it could be a scam, the government's SCAMwatch service has warned.According to the watchdog, this is a new variation on an existing scam, where a caller pretending to be from Microsoft o...
read more...03/08/2011 10:43 AM
