Source: The Australian IT - Michael Sainsbury
31st January, 2007

Telstra has inked a five-year deal with US-based Amdocs to spend $100 million on a major technology upgrade for its Sensis directories business.

Source: The Age - Stephen Bartholomeusz
31st January, 2007

For more than a year Optus has been focused inwardly, a period of introspection forced by the need to cut costs and protect margins.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
31st January, 2007

Optus is to spend up to $800 million on a network expansion aimed at breaking Telstra's 3G monopoly in rural and regional Australia.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan and Lisa Murray
29th January, 2007

Telstra is expected to battle private equity firms for Telecom New Zealand's directories business, with indicative bids due this week.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
29th January, 2007

Telecom NZ has been left in a two-horse race to outbid Optus for control of PowerTel, after Commander Communications pulled out of talks.

Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
25th January, 2007

Telecom NZ remains locked in talks with Powertel about merging its Australian subsidiary, AAPT, with the junior telecom.

Source: SMH - Elizabeth Knight
25th January, 2007

Those who are familiar with the Australian movie The Castle will remember Darryl Kerrigan, the battler who challenged the Government's constitutional right to buy his house.

Source: The Age - Stephen Bartholomeusz
25th January, 2007

Telstra's High Court challenge need not necessarily succeed to be effective.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
25th January, 2007

Telstra is taking its bitter campaign against the ACCC to the High Court, arguing its wholesale pricing rules violate the constitution.

Source: ABC Online
24th January, 2007

Big business is looking to the incoming Workplace Relations Minister to sell the Federal Government's new industrial relations laws in the lead-up to the election.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
23rd January, 2007

Telstra's embattled NZsubsidiary has had to forgo about $159 million in tax credits because of the Australian Government's T3 sale.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
22nd January, 2007

Telstra is expected to decide this week whether to make an unprecedented High Court constitutional challenge against the competition regulator's powers.

Source: The Australian - Chris Jenkins
19th January, 2007

Skype is making a new push to wean Australians off their landlines, announcing local calls free of per-minute charges.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
19th January, 2007

Australia's love affair with the mobile phone continues, with 8.74 million new handsets shipped last year.

Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
19th January, 2007

Telstra's shares soared despite a broking house breaking ranks to warn that the market is "getting ahead of itself".

Source: The Land - Michael Thomson
19th January, 2007

Telstra has a "gun to the Government's head" with its all or nothing request for $600 million to roll out high-speed broadband to the bush.

Source: The Age
17th January, 2007

The sharemarket climbed to a record high, helped by a resurgent Telstra, but finished flat

Source: The Age - Lisa Murray and Matt O'Sullivan
17th January, 2007

The Federal Government is planning a multimillion-dollar campaign to persuade voters that broadband in regional Australia is not a disgrace.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
16th January, 2007

Telstra's rivals have accused it of not meeting its obligations under operational separation rules.

Source: The Land
16th January, 2007

Telstra has lodged a proposal with the Federal Government to undertake the geographically largest fixed broadband development in Australia's history.

Source: ABC Online
12th January, 2007

Telstra has been accused of applying double standards to Aboriginal groups, after the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre's Launceston office was left without phone services yesterday.

Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
10th January, 2007

Investors expect Telstra is about to lose its appeal against a decision over what it can charge rivals for access to its copper network.

Source: SMH - Stuart Washington
5th January, 2007

Mobile broadband operator Unwired Group must raise more than $10 million by January 16 or lose previously announced funding of $5 million from Mitsui.

Source: ACTU
5th January, 2007

The ACTU has welcomed the commitment by Federal Labor to a fair IR system that restores the ability to collectively bargain and abolishing the Howard Government’s AWA individual contracts.

Source: The Age
5th January, 2007

The ACTU will bring forward a levy on union members to fund an escalated campaign against Work Choices. The fund is expected to reach about $28.5 million.

Source: The Australian - Samantha Maiden
4th January, 2007

Workers will be offered greater protections to enshrine the 38-hour week and ban unreasonable overtime under Labor's industrial relations policy.

Source: SMH - Mark Davis
4th January, 2007

A GST-style voter backlash against the Government's IR changes would be enough to deliver Labor victory at this year's federal election.

Source: SMH - Danny John
3rd January, 2007

Telstra reported a significant improvement in its services to north Asia yesterday as its fellow communications companies continued to suffer from the effects of last week's earthquake.

Source: The Australian - Steve Lewis
3rd January, 2007

John Howard's workplace changes have failed to win the backing of the majority of voters, with many still believing they are bad for the economy and jobs.

Source: Daily Telegraph - Rhett Waston
2nd January, 2007

Police are investigating a credit card fraud gang that struck in Port Stephens when the area's telecommunications lines were cut.