TELECOMMUNICATIONS – AUSTRALIA

Telstra designs new deal for NBN

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Original article by Mitchell Bingemann
The Australian – Page: 17 : 19-Dec-14

Telstra recently renegotiated its deal with NBN Co, the entity rolling out the national broadband network. It will still be worth $A11.2bn but involve different technology, due to the September 2013 election win of the Australian Government. The telco will also benefit from a separate move by NBN Co to award it half or more of the design and planning contracts for the infrastructure project, and some construction work. Pending confirmation by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, the agreements may be signed on 19 December 2014

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TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, NBN CO LIMITED, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF COMMUNICATIONS, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF FINANCE, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Telstra win key role in NBN deal

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Original article by Annabel Hepworth
The Australian – Page: 15 : 15-Dec-14

Telstra has announced that the value of its new deal with NBN Co will be $A11bn, just as for the old one that was superseded after the Australian Government won the September 2013 federal election. Under the changed agreement Telstra will make its existing copper lines infrastructure available to the entity in charge of the national broadband network roll-out, and there may also be an added opportunity for the telco to supply construction services. According to Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull this would be strictly on commercial terms

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TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, NBN CO LIMITED, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF COMMUNICATIONS, SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED – ASX SGT, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

iiNet to tackle Optus, Telstra for NSW growth

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Original article by Max Mason
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 20 : 24-Nov-14

CEO David Buckingham says listed ISP iiNet is keen to lift its market share in New South Wales against dominant telcos Telstra and Singtel Optus. Australia-wide, the company ranks just behind Optus, with 950,000 broadband subscribers to 1.03 million. iiNet’s sharemarket capitalisation has grown 380%-plus to $A1.3bn since 2009, as it has purchased rivals including Internode, Adam Internet and TransACT. While iiNet has only a 15% share of the overall fixed broadband market, in the segment of national broadband network connections it is 20%

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IINET LIMITED – ASX IIN, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED – ASX SGT, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, INTERNODE SYSTEMS PTY LTD, ADAM INTERNET PTY LTD, TRANSACT COMMUNICATIONS PTY LTD, TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPM, M2 GROUP LIMITED – ASX MTU, CIMB SECURITIES INTERNATIONAL (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD, GOLDMAN SACHS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, NBN CO LIMITED

Optus lines up new content bundles

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Original article by Mitchell Bingemann
The Australian – Page: 21 : 14-Nov-14

Second-ranked Australian telco Singtel Optus has posted a rise in underlying net profit of 7.4% to $A417m in the half-year ending 30 September 2014. The mobile telephony division boosted its revenue 1.1% to $A2.7bn. However it suffered a drop of 92,000 in subscriber numbers, while there was also one of 207,000 in the mobile broadband segment. CEO Allen Lew says Optus will soon roll out new bundled deals with content providers, to reverse the under-performance of its fixed-broadband operation

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SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED – ASX SGT, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, VODAFONE HUTCHISON AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, SPOTIFY LIMITED

Telstra invests $1bn in Asian growth

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Original article by Mitchell Bingemann
The Australian – Page: 21 : 24-Oct-14

Those attending the 2014 strategy day of Telstra on 23 October heard from CFO Andy Penn that the telco was set to allocate as much as $A1bn to a renewed investment push for the Asian region. This will involve boosting its global enterprise services unit, participating in the transition from the 2G and 3G mobile telephony standards to 4G, and providing consultancy services to other telcos on the roll-out of data-focused network infrastructure

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TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, TELKOM INDONESIA

Telstra NBN deal delayed to 2015

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Original article by David Ramli
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 13 & 20 : 15-Oct-14

The Australian Government had expected to finalise a revised deal with Telstra regarding the national broadband network by mid-2014. Telstra CEO David Thodey is hopeful that much of the negotiations can be concluded by Christmas, but concedes that a final deal is unlikely before 2015. The Coalition’s decision to adopt a fibre to the node model has required renegotiation of the original $A11.2bn deal with the Australian Labor Party

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TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF COMMUNICATIONS, NBN CO LIMITED, TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPM, IINET LIMITED – ASX IIN, AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION

PwC enlisted to count cost of metadata laws

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Original article by Mitchell Bingemann
The Australian – Page: 20 : 8-Oct-14

The Australian Government aims to soon pass new laws that will force telcos and ISPs to store metadata for 24 months, to boost national security. It has now emerged that a study has been commissioned from PricewaterhouseCoopers by the Attorney-General’s Department, of the projected cost burden for the sector that will be created by the implementation of the necessary IT solutions. Second-ranked telco Singtel Optus has put this at between $A30m and $A200m

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SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED – ASX SGT, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, AUSTRALIA. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPT, IINET LIMITED – ASX IIN, TWITTER AUSTRALIA HOLDINGS PTY LTD, TWITTER INCORPORATED, FACEBOOK AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED

Optus in download fast lane

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Original article by Mitchell Bingemann
The Australian – Page: 19 : 22-Sep-14

Singtel Optus has upgraded its 4G mobile network with LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation technology. The telco has indicated that trials of the technology achieved download rates of 160Mbps, compared with a maximum potential download speed of 150Mbps for existing 4G networks. Current mobile devices cannot achieve the higher download speeds, although Optus expects to offer them in coming months

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SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED – ASX SGT, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS

Hit fixed-lines only: Telstra

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Original article by Mitchell Bingemann
The Australian – Page: 19 : 4-Sep-14

Telstra has lodged its submission to the Australian Government’s review of copyright infringement laws. The group argues that new requirements to warn off subscribers if they are caught illegally downloading content should apply to fixed-line services only, not to mobile ones. It also wants an exemption for business customers, claiming this will reduce the complexity of the new measures. Telstra seeks indemnity against any legal action by rights holders, and a contribution by them to the cost of the new scheme

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TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS

Start-ups focus for Telstra offshoot

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Original article by David Ramli
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 23 : 19-Aug-14

Australian telco Telstra is pursuing a strategy under CEO David Thodey of diversifying into technology start-ups, to prepare itself for the loss of revenue from the traditional telephony business. It has set up the muru-D incubator in Sydney and lifted its stake in US-based online video software provider Ooyala from 23% to 98% for $US270m ($A289m). Both will now be housed in the newly-incorporated Telstra Software Group entity, where the board consists of global enterprise and services group executive Brendon Riley, strategic finance group MD Cynthia Whelan and muru-D co-founder Charlotte Yarkoni

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TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, TELSTRA SOFTWARE GROUP PTY LTD, MURU-D PTY LTD, OOYALA INCORPORATED, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED – ASX SGT, SINGTEL INNOV8 PTE LTD, GARTNER GROUP INCORPORATED, WHATSAPP INCORPORATED, SKYPE TECHNOLOGIES SA, AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION