Good value if purchased with a plan, the telstra’s speed impresses

Significant competition from the likes of Optus@Home recently has given cause for Telstra BigPond to devise flat-rate pricing plans that have opened up its cable service to the residential market.

The form of DSL offered by BigPond is ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), meaning that the upload speed is lower than the download speed.

Is Australia’s biggest telco beset by parasites? PC Authority looks at Telstra’s new strategy to win over our hearts and minds.

The telco launches a broadside at OPEL project, questioning the $1 billion budget for a network that isn’t here yet.

Australian broadband now half way there: continues to live on prayer

Telstra has boosted its mobile network capacity in anticipation of yet another record-breaking attempt on text and call volumes over the new year holiday.

Telstra yesterday announced it will let the public decide which telephone exchanges will next be upgraded to handle ADSL.

Telstra has launched NTT DoCoMo's mobile phone service i-mode in Australia, a multimedia service proving popular with consumers overseas.

Telstra will credit Bigpond customers with two weeks access, following email delays which saw the service impacted for almost a week.

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With Australia's fastest 3G network, Telstra is also claiming the crown for the fastest iPhone 3GS. Here's what you need to know about pricing

One of the most confusing aspects of pre-paid wireless broadband plans are the way different providers calculate your credit, and how much value you get when you recharge your credit. Here's how to avoid getting ripped off

ISDN, an acronym for Integrated Services Digital Network, is a digital service that not only enhances communication by phone and fax, but personal computers as well. In 1997, Telstra introduced a new

To help you find the best plan for your needs, we've split up users into the following common profiles and provided recommended plans for each. Note that many ISPs have more plans than we could list in the table. We chose to only include the plans from each ISP that were the most competitive compared to the rest of the industry. This means there might be a more suitable plan for you that we didn't list, so be sure to check out the complete range of plans from an ISP if you don't find a good fit.

Telstra has had the role of providing the network infrastructure that is coping with both the Australian end of the site traffic and providing 155Mb capacity fibre optic links between the IBM LANs at

Bezeq is Israel's equivalent to Telstra, in more ways than one. Like Telstra, Bezeq held a nationalised monopoly over all telephony until recently. Bezeq is taking its time rolling out the next genera