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Telstra Corporation ASX: TLS is an Australian telecommunications company under joint public/private ownership, holding a dominant position in landline telephone services, large share of mobile phone services, domestic consumer (including dial-up access and "broadband" cable modem, satellite and ADSL services under the BigPond and Hypermax brands) and business data services, and cable television. Despite some setbacks, Telstra remains a profitable telecommunications company. The Australian Federal Government has recently announced it expects to sell its remaining share in 2006. A Senate vote passed on the night of September 14, 2005 has allowed this to occur. Telstra Corporate Logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
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In Australia, BigPond is Telstras brand name for consumer dialup and broadband ADSL, cable modem, satellite internet services and Wireless Broadband (EVDO) via the Telstra Internet national backbone. ...
Hypermax is an Australian Internet service provider founded in 1996 which was purchased by Telstras Bigpond division in 2004 for AUD$5 million. ...
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History
Telecommunications services were originally controlled by the (government-owned) Postmaster General's Department (PMG). On July 1, 1975, separate commissions were established by statute to replace the PMG. Responsibility for postal services was transferred to the Australian Postal Commission (Australia Post). The Australian Telecommunications Commission (ATC), trading as Telecom Australia, ran domestic telecommunication services. July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ...
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The Australian Postal Commission was established on July 1, 1975 after the disaggregation of the Postmaster-Generals Department. ...
Australia Post is the government-owned postal service of Australia. ...
The Australian Telecommunications Commission, trading as Telecom Australia, was established on July 1, 1975 after the disaggregation of the Postmaster-Generals Department. ...
In 1989 the ATC was reconstituted as the Australian Telecommunications Corporation. The Australian Telecommunications Corporation was the result of a name change by the Australian Telecommunications Commission, effective 1 January 1989, although formal incorporation did not occur until 6 November 1991. ...
In 1992 the Overseas Telecommunications Commission, a separate government body established in 1946, was merged with the Australian Telecommunications Corporation into the short-lived Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation (AOTC) which continued trading under the established identities of Telecom and OTC. The Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC) was established in August of 1946. ...
The Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation was the short-lived product of the February 1, 1992 merger of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission and the Australian Telecommunications Corporation. ...
The AOTC was renamed to Telstra Corporation Limited in 1993. It has since been partially privatised but as of mid-2005 remains majority government-owned. A depressed share price is expected to delay the government selling its remaining 51.8% of the company for some time. Telstra began to establish its new identity and to disengage from its previous trading identities.
Telstra has faced competition since the late 1980s from Optus and a host of other smaller providers. It retains ownership of the fixed-line telephone network, as well as one of two competing pay-tv and data cable networks. Other companies offering fixed-line services must therefore deal with Telstra. Competing telecommunication companies have constantly accused Telstra of overcharging for wholesale access to their networks (notably for ADSL, allegedly to protect their cable-modem broadband product); the ACCC has often agreed but decisions by the regulator are very slow. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...
Singtel Optus is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly-owned subsidary of Singapore Telecommunications (ASX: SGT), the second largest telecommunications company outside China in terms of number of subscribers. ...
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Privatisation Telstra was partially privatised by the coalition government in the late 1990s, but it is still 51.8% owned by the government, which would like to divest the remaining portion but this had been blocked until the 14th of September, 2005, both by a hostile Senate, and because of financial and electoral considerations. Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or, especially in India, disinvestment) is the process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership and/or transferring the management of a service or activity from the government to the private sector. ...
The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. ...
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Earlier partial floats attracted a great deal of public interest but have, in many cases, been spectacularly poor investments, a majority of which was caused by global sentiment about telecommunications companies first inflating, and then just as quickly deflating the share price. There seems no immediate prospect of the share price climbing back to the level at which the earlier shares were originally sold.
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has consistently opposed full privatisation and continues to do so. Their official party platform also notes a desire for the wholesale and retail arms of Telstra to be more "clearly distinct" within the company to enable fairer competition with private telecommunications providers who use Telstra's lines. In the past, Labor Party figures (including Lindsay Tanner) floated the idea of a breakup of the company into separate retail and wholesale businesses, though this proposal was dropped after opposition from trade unions. The Australian Greens, the Australian Democrats and key independent Senators Meg Lees and Len Harris held similar positions to the ALP, which meant that until the 2004 elections any bill for full privatisation was guaranteed to fail in the Senate. The Australian Labor Party or ALP is Australias oldest political party. ...
Lindsay Tanner Lindsay James Tanner (born 24 April 1956), Australian politician, has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1993, representing the Division of Melbourne, Victoria. ...
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Meg Lees Meg Heather Lees (born October 19, 1948) has been the founder and sole representative of the Australian Progressive Alliance in the Australian Senate since 2003, representing the state of South Australia. ...
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Since the Coalition gained control of the Senate, it passed the privatisation legislation with a majority of 37-35. In many rural areas, the availability of mobile phone services and broadband internet services, as well as general service quality, remain topics of contention for many rural customers. Additionally, rural voters feel that a privatised Telstra will neglect its much less profitable rural networks, placing further pressure on the National Party not to support the sale. Ultimately, the National Party supported the sale, drawing criticism from state Farmers Federations, but not the National Farmers Federation. Broadband in general refers to data transmission where multiple pieces of data are sent simultaneously to increase the effective rate of transmission. ...
On 14th September 2005, the Australian senate concluded that the sale of Telstra would be legalised, with mass media dispute over the effects. The decision coincided with Mark Latham's press release stating bitter remarks about Australian politics, overshadowing the sale of Telstra. In the senate, Senator Barnaby Joyce drew criticism for reneging on his campaign promise to oppose the sale of Telstra. Mark Latham Mark William Latham (born February 28, 1961), an Australian politician, was Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from December 2003 to January 2005. ...
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Services
Fixed Line Services Telstra owns and operates all copper line based PSTN services in Australia. The only competing fixed line service is the Optus network which uses HFC to deliver telephony services to a rather limited percentage of the population. Most of Telstra's profit is generated from fixed line services. Telstra recently issued a profit warning to due declined growth in the fixed line market. People seem to be shifting from their fixed line services to mobile carriers. The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the concatenation of the worlds public circuit-switched telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the concatenation of the worlds public IP-based packet-switched networks. ...
Singtel Optus is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly-owned subsidary of Singapore Telecommunications (ASX: SGT), the second largest telecommunications company outside China in terms of number of subscribers. ...
Telstra outsources a significant portion of network installation and maintenance to private contractors, such as ABB Communications and STCJV. As such, customers now frequently have to deal with third-parties when arranging the installation of a new phone line or a maintenance service call for a faulty line. ABB Corporate Logo Asea Brown Boveri, or ABB, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, operating mainly in the power and automation business areas. ...
Siemens Thiess Communications Joint Venture (STCJV) Australia is a joint venture between Siemens and Thiess Services. ...
Mobile Telephony (Telstra Mobile) Telstra operates GSM, CDMA and 3G mobile telephony networks throughout Australia. Telstra also provide Prepaid Mobile services, via Telstra Prepaid Plus, utilising all Mobile telephony networks that Telstra operates. Telstra is the dominant provider of telecommunication services in Australia. Telstra has recently announced that it will scrap its CDMA network and replace it with a new WCDMA network, codenamed "CORGI". Not to be confused with Get Some Mates The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ...
General Information Generically (as a multiplexing scheme), code division multiple access (CDMA) is any use of any form of spread spectrum by multiple transmitters to send to the same receiver on the same frequency channel at the same time without harmful interference. ...
3G (or 3-G) is short for third-generation mobile telephone technology. ...
General Information Generically (as a multiplexing scheme), code division multiple access (CDMA) is any use of any form of spread spectrum by multiple transmitters to send to the same receiver on the same frequency channel at the same time without harmful interference. ...
W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), a wideband spread-spectrum 3G mobile telecommuncation air interface that utilizes code division multiple access (or CDMA the general multiplexing scheme, not to be confused with CDMA the standard), is a 3G mobile communications standard allied with the GSM standard. ...
Internet (Telstra BigPond)
Broadband Telstra, through its retail Internet Service Provider, BigPond sell broadband internet access via ADSL, HFC Cable, Satellite and Wireless access through Telstra's EVDO network. In Australia, BigPond is Telstras brand name for consumer dialup and broadband ADSL, cable modem, satellite internet services and Wireless Broadband (EVDO) via the Telstra Internet national backbone. ...
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide. ...
A cable is two or more wires bound together which may be bare, covered or insulated. ...
A satellite is any object that orbits another object (which is known as its primary). ...
Wireless is an old-fashioned term for a radio receiver, referring to its use as a wireless telegraph. ...
EVDO, thrid generation CDMA1X data transfer. ...
Dial Up Telstra, through its retail Internet Service Provider, BigPond sell dialup internet access. In Australia, BigPond is Telstras brand name for consumer dialup and broadband ADSL, cable modem, satellite internet services and Wireless Broadband (EVDO) via the Telstra Internet national backbone. ...
Subscription Television As well as owning 50% of the Australian Subscription Television provider Foxtel, Telstra's Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) Cable network is one of the delivery systems used by Foxtel. Telstra also resell Foxtel's "Digital" products in Foxtel's service area and Austar's "Digital" product, in Austar's service area. Foxtel is a cable television and satellite television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. ...
Foxtel is a cable television and satellite television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. ...
Foxtel is a cable television and satellite television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. ...
Austar is an Australian telecommunications company. ...
Telstra's ownership of Foxtel has in the past come under fire from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) Foxtel is a cable television and satellite television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. ...
The Australian Labor Party or ALP is Australias oldest political party. ...
Directories and advertising (Sensis) Sensis is Telstra's wholly-owned advertising and directories arm. Sensis publishes Australia's White Pages and Yellow Pages telephone directories, and recently purchased (2004) the Trading Post (a classified advertising periodical). In addition, they manage several websites: A white pages is a telephone directory listing of subscriber names, addresses, and telephone numbers. ...
In many countries, the Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory for businesses organized by the category of product or service. ...
- White Pages Online: an additional revenue source compared to print
- Yellow Pages Online: an additional revenue source compared to print
- Sensis.com.au: an Australian search engine
- WhereIs.com: online maps and street directories
- CitySearch: city-based lifestyle and entertainment guide
- LinkMe: business networking directory
- JustListed: a real estate site focused on the Sydney market
- Invizage: a provider of outsourced IT services
Sensis are also responsible for all of Telstra's telephony directory assistance, from basic (1223, 12455) to premium (1234) and emergency (000) services.
In September 2005, Sensis proactively made 235 staff redundant in an attempt to forestall a possible directive from Telstra to dismiss a larger number.
Market Position & Power
 Market share data, Sept 2005 Telstra's market dominance extends beyond its historical PSTN voice and private data business, into newer markets such as Internet Access, Hosting, and Colocation services. In spite of competition from both foreign and domestic challengers, the former PTT has retained a strong grip on many of the country's most profitable customers. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1069x731, 245 KB) Summary Original PDFs of this picture are made freely available at http://www. ...
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Optus remains the companies' closest rival for lucrative business networks. However, Telstra supplies almost twice as many customers in the ASX200 with Dedicated Internet Access services. Singtel Optus is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly-owned subsidary of Singapore Telecommunications (ASX: SGT), the second largest telecommunications company outside China in terms of number of subscribers. ...
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is the primary stock exchange in Australia. ...
International expansion Telstra has attempted to expand into international markets. More notable is a joint venture with Hong Kong entrepreneur Richard Li and his company Pacific Century Cyberworks during the late 1990s telecommunications boom. Their undersea cable venture, Reach, has struggled, with its book value downgraded to zero by the company in February 2003 (it continues to operate, though, and the company believes that it may still be viable in the longer term). Richard Li Tzar Kai (æŽæ¾¤æ¥· Pinyin: LÇ ZékÇŽi) was born on 1966 in Hong Kong, the younger son of sucessful entrepeneur Li Ka-Shing. ...
PCCW logo PCCW Limited (PCCW, 電訊盈科) is the largest telecommunication enterprise in Hong Kong. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In 2002, Telstra also acquired PCCW's remaining 40% stake in Regional Wireless Company (RWC), giving it total ownership of CSL, then the most prominent of Hong Kong's six mobile operators. 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Telstra also fully owns New Zealand subsidiary TelstraClear. The company was formed in 2001 from the merger of subsidiary TelstraSaturn (a 50/50 joint-venture with Austar which had previously acquired ISPs paradise.net and NetLink) and the telco Clear Communications purchased from BT Group plc. TelstraClear also operates a Cable TV brand Saturn. TelstraClear is New Zealands second largest full-service telecommunications company. ...
Austar is an Australian telecommunications company. ...
An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ...
TelstraClears Paradise. ...
BT Group plc (formerly known as British Telecommunications) which trades as BT (and previously as British Telecom) is the privatised former UK state telecommunications operator . ...
Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional...
Sponsorship For marketing reasons, two national sporting arenas bear the name Telstra. They are the Telstra Dome in Melbourne and Telstra Stadium in Sydney. A panoramic view of the interor of Telstra Dome with the roof closed. ...
Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3. ...
This page is for Telstra Stadium, Sydney. ...
Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and with a population of over four million people is the most populous city in Australia. ...
External links Wikinews has news related to this article: Telstra sale legislation debated in Australian House of Representatives, considered "urgent" - Telstra Australia
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- Telstra BigPond Internet
- Telstra's new 3G (WCDMA) product offering
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