Telstra acquired another 338,000 contract mobile phone customers and 9.8 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 »
Never manage to answer your phone before it diverts to voicemail? You can alter the length of time it rings by dialling a simple number. More »
We’ve been waiting on it since late September, and now there’s finally a release date: the HTC Velocity 4G, the first phone to utilise Telstra’s 4G/LTE network, goes on sale from next Tuesday. More »
Further proof that one of Android’s virtues is a wide variety of price points: Telstra this week begins selling the Samsung Galaxy Y as a prepaid handset for $129. More »
From today until January 17, Telstra is offering a basic prepaid Telstra broadband dongle for $29.50 with 2GB of included data. That’s half the regular price. More »
Telstra’s bargain prepaid Android phone the Smart-Touch T2030 was $99 when it was first released, but the price has since dropped to $79. That’s a reasonable saving, but until January 18 Kmart has an even better deal: the same $79 price tag, but with $50 of included prepaid credit. More »
When we recently rounded up how providers count data usage on your mobile phone, Telstra’s Encore mobile plans were one of the less generous options, with data counted in 1024KB blocks (yep, 1MB). That has now changed, with the provider switching to per-KB counting. More »
The hugely anticipated Samsung Galaxy Nexus — the first Android phone to officially run the awesome new Ice Cream Sandwich build — officially makes its appearance in Australia this week. Of the three local carriers, who has the best deal if you want to buy on a contract? Planhacker runs through the numbers for Optus, Telstra and Vodafone. More »
Compared to Vodafone or Virgin Mobile, specials on Telstra mobile broadband dongles are fairly rare. So occasional users might be tempted by this deal at The Good Guys: a prepaid Turbo USB dongle with 2GB of data for $24.50. More »
