Tagged in: Telstra
Mobile competition starts to bite in Australia
Over the last two years we have seen dramatic developments in the mobile industry. The arrival of smartphones pushed the mobile operators further into the commodity corner. They had been unable to capture the power of mobile broadband through their … Continue reading
Pyrrhic victory for AFL
The victory that the AFL scored against Optus in its battle to stop the telco from enabling users to view recorded sporting events via the mobile phone network could have a serious long-term negative effect on that sporting organisation – … Continue reading
Will the half-built HFC disaster be repeated by the Coalition?
Those who remember the 1990s in the telco industry know of the massive investment destruction in telecoms infrastructure that was carried out by Telstra and Optus. At that time Optus saw the strategy to build a high-speed broadband infrastructure based … Continue reading
IPTV slow but steady progress
After a decade of trial and error IPTV is ready to make a comeback, but its progress will be slow. Around the world we see that IPTV is driven by high-speed broadband deployment – Fttx rollouts in particular are generating … Continue reading
2012 – make-or-break time for the NBN
It is important to revisit the reasons for Australia building its national broadband network (NBN). Several things became clear during the privatisation process of Telstra in the 00s – broadband quality was below the international benchmark, end-user and wholesale prices … Continue reading
Sensis – a decade of disaster stories
On Tuesday next week Telstra will release its first half-year results for 2012. There is the expected ongoing positive news on its core telecom activities, but I would like to once again flag the Sensis disaster story. It is incomprehensible … Continue reading
Telstra’s Structural Separation Undertaking is well-received
As we have said all along, there are no longer any incentives for Telstra to game the system in relation to the NBN. BuddeComm has always been confident that Telstra and the ACCC would come to an agreement on the … Continue reading
Telstra nostalgia in Laos
“Peter Evans, one of BuddeComm’s team of researchers/analysts, was Telstra’s Country Manager in Laos in the period 1995-1998. These days as Senior Analyst Asia, he carries out market research and analysis of the telecom sector for BuddeComm in some 27 … Continue reading
Australian telecoms worth $40 billion
BuddeComm estimates that the overall telecoms services revenue passed the $40 billion mark in 2011, reflecting the mildness of the downturn in Australia compared with other countries. However, as has been the case in 2011, growth is likely to remain … Continue reading
Finally Telstra bundles its media assets
Over the last decade I have made dozens of comments and produced numerous analyses relating to Sensis and Telstra’s other media assets. As an example I have selected just one such a comment, from 2004. During all that time I … Continue reading
