5G coverage in selected areas of about 100 cities and towns. Australian telecommunications service provider Telstra has hit a major milestone in its 5G roll out with more than 50 per cent of Australians now living in its 5G coverage footprint. Telstra already has more than 750,000 5G devices on…
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Wester Australia Education Dept. upgrades Internet connectivity
Increasing data speeds across the Australian state. Public school students throughout Western Australia (WA) will soon have access to high-speed connectivity under an extension of the partnership between Telstra and the WA Department of Education. WA Education Minister Sue Ellery, who said that students could experience on average an increase…
Read MoreWise Employment provides mobility services
Empowering job seekers with disability, regardless of their needs or location, though hybrid cloud. Not-for-profit employment services provider, Wise Employment transformed its IT infrastructure leveraging Telstra’s mobile network. The deployment with Equinix, Wise Employment will help improve services for customers and reduce data centre expenses and management. The Australian NGO…
Read MoreEricsson and Telstra collaborate on edge cloud for enterprises
Collaboration between Swedish and Australian telcommunication providers. Ericsson and Telstra have announced they will collaborate to develop an enterprise edge cloud solution developed specifically for the Telstra domain. This collaboration builds on the 2019 announcement between Ericsson, Telstra and an Australian financial institution, to trial 5G edge computing technologies for the financial…
Read MoreTelstra offers free digital to business
Australian telco provides free tools to help businesses maximise digital acceleration. Australian businesses now have free access to tools that will help them digitise their business and succeed in today’s digital economy. The launch of the Telstra Digital Maturity tool at Vantage Remixed coincides with new economic modelling revealing billions of…
Read MoreTaylor Construction steps into the future with 5G
Australian construction company trials Cloud and enterprise wireless solution. Australian-based Taylor Construction demonstrates firsthand that 5G has arrived, setting a new standard for 5G-enabled high-tech applications for the enterprise. Cradlepoint, the global leader in cloud-delivered LTE and 5G wireless edge solutions, today announced that Taylor Construction has completed its 5G trial…
Read MoreMicrosoft and Telstra advance Cloud initiatives
Combining Microsoft Azure and Telstra’s network. Microsoft Telstra have extended their long-standing strategic partnership to focus on accelerating the development and release of innovative and sustainable Cloud-based solutions across multiple industries. The partnership was founded on Telstra and Microsoft’s shared understanding that Cloud, combined with 5G, will enable intelligent devices…
Read MoreFormer Telstra CISO joins Toll
Transport and logistics company finds its global head of infosec Australian transportation and logistics company Toll, has hired former Telstra CISO, Berin Lautenbach as its new global head of information security. The new appointment comes off the back of Toll’s announcement in July that it was looking to recruit a global head…
Read MorePandemic pushes calls through with chat bots and apps
Striving for resilience in APAC call centres. The recent events of COVID-19 have forced CIOs and IT functions to work differently and across a broad range of tools to ensure vital contact centres are up and running, even when staff were no longer in a physical call centre. According to…
Read MoreUpdate: Telstra no longer believes a DoS attack brought its network down
Telco walks back claims of DoS attack, when its network went down on the weekend. Australian telecommunications provider, Telstra has walked back claims a severe outage on Sunday was due to a Denial of Service (DoS). In a Twitter message, the telco wrote: “The massive messaging storm that presented as…
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