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Telstra also set up a social services CEO round table under Gerard Devan which acted as a "Think Tank" to the sector. Telstra was a major sponsor of the V8 Supercars car racing championship through its BigPond brand and directly sponsored the Sydney Telstra 500 event, the final round of the series held at Sydney Olympic Park. [86]
Telstra Corporation Limited v The Commonwealth was an important case decided in the High Court of Australia on 6 March 2008. [1]It concerned a dispute between Telstra Corporation and the Commonwealth of Australia, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) and eleven other ISPs regarding the ownership of and shared access obligations to the Telstra controlled unconditional local ...
Telstra was progressively privatised (33.3% 1997, 16.6% 1999, 33.3% 2006, with 17% transferred to the Future Fund.) Numbers of licensed telecommunications carriers grew from: ~20 controlling facilities in Australia at 1998 (with several hundred entities providing services using those facilities to end users ); to 99 at 2002.
In March 2007, the ALP announced a new policy, accepting the privatization of Telstra in order to fund a world class national broadband network. [72] [73] Due to Telstra's extensive use of pair-gain technology for connecting home landlines from 1994 to 2000, some homes have been excluded from ADSL and are limited to a dialup speed of 28.8 kbit ...
In December a new agreement was finalised with Telstra and Optus for purchase of copper and HFC networks, for a similar cost to the existing compensation for shutting down those networks. Telstra accepted $11B for its part of the network, less a discount for a "remediation credit" where parts of the network required maintenance. [119]
OTC dish at Ceduna, South Australia. The Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC) was established by Australia in August 1946.It inherited facilities and resources from Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA) and Cable & Wireless, and was charged with responsibility for all international telecommunications services into, through and out of Australia.
David Ingle Thodey (born 14 May 1954 [1]) is an Australian businessman who is a former chief executive officer of Telstra [2] and current chairman of accounting software company Xero. He became chancellor of the University of Sydney in July 2024.
Vita Group Limited (Vita Group) is an Australian retailer that operates under the brands of Artisan Aesthetic Clinics. Vita Group employs 400 [1] people across its network of brands and is an ASX listed company that in 2020 reported revenues of $773.1 million.