Telstra acquired another 338,000 contract mobile phone customers and 98 million prepaid mobile users in the last six months, along with 436,000 mobile broadband customers. It now has 6.4 million contract mobile customers, 3.3 million prepaid customers and 2.7 million mobile broadband users. That’s good news for Telstra shareholders, but it underlines a dilemma for consumers and the company: if Telstra doesn’t constantly keep installing new network equipment, speeds for everyone are going to keep getting slower over time. More »
Not entirely a new category this; there have been a few USB stick routers previously, but Netcomm’s is interesting in two ways. Firstly, it doesn’t look like it fell off the back of a Shenzhen factory. Secondly, Netcomm states it’ll work seamlessly with Telstra’s 4G USB Modem. More »
The rumours are flying thick and fast regarding Telstra’s next step in 4G after USB modems and the HTC Velocity 4G. The latest suggestion is that we’ll see an LTE-enabled version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 sometime in March. More »
Your Sunday smartphone rumour is courtesy of Telstra which, according to a source “in-the-know” speaking to Ausdroid, has revealed that the Samsung’s Galaxy Note and Galaxy S II 4G have popped up in the telco’s “internal systems” and could be out and about in the “near future”. More »
4G is fast, or so the traditional orthodoxy goes. But how fast is it, and is the jump over 3G on the same network actually noticeable? There was only one way for me to find that out. More »
Just over twenty years ago, if you wanted a phone service, you could get one.. from Telstra. And that was it. Today marks an anniversary of sorts in Australian telecommunications, as Optus is twenty years old today, at least in terms of when it started commercial operations. More »
Exciting times are afoot if you’re coming off contract soon. Australia’s first 4G phone (the Velocity 4G) arrived yesterday, alongside the Samsung Omnia W, our first second-gen Windows Phone. Then there are upcoming phones like the HTC Titan II, Sony Xperia S, Nokia Lumia 900, and the Asus Padfone. Here’s how these upcoming beasts compare. More »
Australia has waited patiently for its first LTE smartphone, and it has finally arrived in the form of the HTC Velocity 4G. It is by all accounts an excellent high-end smartphone, but there are some limitations around Telstra’s 4G service that take some of the sparkle away and restricts our buy recommendation to the few, not the many. More »
We all knew what it was and when it was coming, but the HTC Velocity 4G was only officially launched last night at an extravagant bash. Telstra also revealed a few tidbits that might just convince you to get this phone… or maybe wait. More »
Meet Australia’s first second-gen Windows Phone. The Omnia W (aka Focus Flash in the States) packs a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED screen, and is the beginning of something good. It’s on the economy end of this next-generation of Windows Phones, but in a lot of ways, it blows the doors off of the last generation. That means something. More »
