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• NBN Co leveraging ex-Telstra Agile skills

  The people tasked with developing key customer portals for NBN Co will tap Agile methods honed in their previous roles at Telstra.

• Telstra deal clears way for satellite phone service

  Brisbane-based mobile carrier Indigo Telecom Australia has entered into a partnership with Telstra Wholesale for the use of GSM services for its new dual satellite-terrestrial mobile phone service.

• Unionised Telstra employees “live to fight another day”

  The Communications, Electrical, Plumbing Union (CEPU) vowed this week to put more pressure on Telstra (ASX:TLS) to fill the salary gap between unionised and non-unionised employees as the results of an internal poll became clear.
  

• Telstra staff face six month pay rise wait

  Telstra's (ASX:TLS) Consumer Division staff will have to wait at least six months before their claim to a pay increase is considered, the telco has confirmed.

• Realestate.com.au sold on Telstra T-Suite cloud services

  Real Estate and property portal Realestate.com.au through its parent company REA Group has purchased 750 Microsoft Exchange Online seats through Telstra’s SaaS portal, T-Suite.

• Telstra signs four-year deal with Bendigo IPTv

  Telstra (ASX:TLS) has signed a four year agreement to provide Bendigo IPTv's community television content through its BigPond TV IPTV service

• Australia's major telcos unfazed by Internode's business market push

  Australia’s major telcos remain unperturbed despite news that rival ISP, Internode, will be zeroing in on enterprise customers, after setting up its new Brisbane office.

• Treasury costings scant on NBN details

  You might have expected that the Treasury’s costings of the two major party’s election policies — released to the Independents and the media late yesterday — would contain a fair amount of detail about how much each party’s wildly differing broadband policy would cost.

• Sierra Wireless readies HSPA+ modules for laptops

  Sierra Wireless on Monday announced the AirPrime MC8801, a module that will allow makers of laptops, netbooks and tablets to integrate mobile broadband using HSPA+ (High-Speed Packet Access) at download speeds up to 42M bps (bits per second) into their products.

• Telstra becomes first to offer HSPA+ at 42Mbps

  Australian mobile network operator Telstra has become the first operator to launch a mobile broadband service using HSPA+ at 42M bps (bits per second), it said on Monday.

• Vita (ASX:VTG) posts 42% profit gain in FY10

  Mobile phone and product retailer Vita Group (ASX:VTG) grew its FY10 profit 42% to $7.7m after cutting expenses and receiving retroactive commissions from Telstra

• Telstra continues financial stagnation

  The nation’s biggest telco Telstra today unveiled another lacklustre financial result, with its overall sales revenue declining by 2.2 percent over the past year and net profit after tax also slumping 4.7 percent.

• Android goes pre-paid with Telstra for $349

  Tesltra and HTC have partnered to offer the first pre-paid Android-based mobile handset, the HTC Wildfire, to the local market at a street price of $349.

• BlackBerry Torch to hit all Australian telcos

  BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion, has announced its new Torch 9800 handset and BlackBerry 6 operating system - unveiled overnight in the US - will be available through all of Australia's major mobile telcos.

• Optus quadruples HFC cable speeds with DOCSIS 3

  Optus has completed a substantial upgrade of its HFC cable network in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney that will allow residents in supported areas access to speeds ranging up to around 80Mbps or more, using the improved DOCSIS 3 standard.