Until December 15th Telstra is running what it is calling its best ever broadband deal. For just $78 per month new bundle customers in Sydney and Melbourne BigPond Cable areas can sign up to the Telstra Complete Home Saver 200GB Bundle. So the key points on this deal:
The HTC Wildfire S is a small, budget smartphone available exclusively on the Telstra network in Australia. Unlike most network-exclusive handsets, the HTC Wildfire S will not actually function on any 3G network other than Telstra’s, but will still offer standard calling and texts on other carriers.
Telstra has announced the Enterprise and Business launch of its new Telstra 4G LTE Network. Come the 29th of August two thousand pioneer USB modems will be made available to Telstra Business customers. This new product is to be named the Telstra USB 4G and will run on both 4G LTE and 4G HSPA, utilising both the 1800MHz and 850MHz spectrum bands. This means that anywhere where customers do not have 4G support Telstra’s 3G HSPA network should still be available.
Telstra have announced today that they are supporting visual voicemail for the iPhone. Yet after just a few hours in the market, this little feature announcement is now becoming an interesting test of character for the 'new' Telstra. The new feature announcement is causing quite a stir on the Telstra Exchange Blog and what Telstra does next is going to be the important thing in re-affirming their new approach to customers.
Telstra has announced their plan for a 2011 rollout of a new LTE “4G” network. LTE (meaning Long-Term Evolution) is a wireless technology that has recently become extremely popular in the US and offers transfer rates of up to 60mbs, that’s over seven times the speed most of Australia’s current 3G wireless network.
UPDATED: Telstra has finally said goodbye to their 30 second block calls, bringing it in line with many other telcos with new per minute charges. From March 2011, Telstra will begin charging for mobile, STD and international calls in one minute segments, meaning that regardless of whether your call is 5 seconds or 55 seconds, you will be charged for one full minute.