More than 200 jobs to be lost at #Telstra in AI rollout while some other jobs are sent to India
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/10/telstra-ai-job-cuts-offshore-workforce
#Telstra
Telstra to axe more than 200 jobs amid AI rollout https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/10/telstra-ai-job-cuts-offshore-workforce #Telstra #Business #AiArtificialIntelligence #AustraliaNews #TelecommunicationsIndustry
Piracy is MORALLY JUSTIFIED after Telstra Locked Customer Purchases Behind New Hardware
Having found a (locked) #Telstra mobile phone and being unable to find any owner contact details, do I hand it to:
Why thank you #telstra spicy autocorrect, but I think you are full of crap. I suspect that there is a closer Telstra store than Northland!
TIL: Mobile Service Provider in Australien (müssen?) Geräte blocken, wenn sie irgendwelche Bugs beim #Notruf haben.
Also z.B. wenn #Telstra dein Home Carrier ist und die 📱 es nicht sauber schaffen über #Optus oder #Vodafone nen Notruf rauszubekommen (da #3G IIRC mittlerweile auch in Australien abgeschalten ist, dürften sie vermutlich den Emergency IMS Bearer nicht sauber hoch bekommen).
https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/older-mobile-devices-calling-triple-zero-
@chozari @sortius @MelissaBearTrix
Telecommunications Ombudsman.
Make a complain, they usually action complaint through them, as it costs them moni.
Not sure if there is still universal obligation.
But try.
Free calls to Santa from payphones are a gift – and a reminder that public goods have a value beyond money | Cressida Gaukroger https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/24/free-calls-to-santa-payphones-australia-a-gift #Telecommunicationsindustry #Telstra
Rural texting is about to get a shot in the arm, provided you're using a recent iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, or even a newly added Pixel, too. https://www.pickr.com.au/news/2025/telstra-switches-on-satellite-messaging-for-pixel-9-pixel-10 #news #phones #telcos #pixel #rural #satellite #starlink #telstra
If you can still find a local payphone, you can use it to call Santa, as Telstra switches on the service for the yearly event. https://www.pickr.com.au/news/2025/telstras-santa-calls-are-back-from-every-payphone #news #online #santaclaus #telstra #xmas
time clock on 1194 on Telstra is now online at https://1194online.com/ - phone version is gone in 2019 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-16/talking-clock-continues-to-tick-on-the-internet/11605112 timeclock #telstra
@voltagex
Have only experience with #Telstra, the ISP router was on IPv6.
But yes looking into this it shows a flattening
https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/AU
Do you talk to family&friends about this?
@backupbear the #3Gshutdown in #Australia including the #IMEI firewall is just nuts.
- Or do the 3 big telcos (#Vodafone, #Telstra & #Optus) expect tourists to buy a phone just for their stay?
Also the fact that there was no testing number (i.e. 999 or 112 or 911) to verify functionality is the stupidest thing ever - ESPECHALLY IN AUSTRALIA where there's way too much dangerous shit, way too long distances in the countryside and help is way too hard to come by…
- Shit like this is why #Germany idn't going to shut down #2G anytime soon (espechally since #eCall & #CellBroadcast rely on it!) and merely frequency allocations have been reduced instead to enshure rudimentary connectivity of #EmergencyServices...
Not shure if @BNetzA took the "New Zealand Approach" and permits shutdown of non-emergency calls in case of disasters and telling people to use #SMS for sending "pings" to loved ones as to not impede rescue efforts necessitating emergency voice calling.
I tried out #Telstra mobile on my phone for a month with their $5 addon to get coverage on my #Apple Watch Ultra. $65 for 50 gig, waste of money. Always have my watch near my phone anyway. Back to #Amaysim, $175 for the whole year and 220gig. My data is consumed when connected to Wi-Fi anyway!
Telstra has found a few phones struggle to connect to emergency with every network, meaning it's time to urgently replace those models. https://www.pickr.com.au/news/2025/telstra-finds-old-phones-that-cant-call-triple-zero-and-their-time-is-up #googleandroid #news #phones #telcos #4g #emergencies #galaxy #samsung #telstra
@SuperMoosie yeah, it was terrible, rushed legislation. there was no way #Telstra could test which version was on each handset and whether it would use VoLTE for 000 or not.
And tbh, as the networks changed the rules I would have expected them to issue like-for-like updated models to be certain their customers could make 000 calls. But hey, I don't write the laws.
#Optus didn't even train their support people when they started blocking handsets. I spent four hours on the phone with them trying to get them to confirm why a handset was blocked.
@SuperMoosie A reminder of this explainer https://medium.com/@jamesdwho/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-block-working-4g-5g-phones-2bf41e95de8a
I don't know whether to be surprised it's taken #Telstra a year to start on their legal obligation or not.
Wow, who'd have thought the hurried bonkers legislation would be a complete mess. And good to see #Telstra taking their legal obligations seriously 11 months after they were meant to
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-22/samsung-mobile-devices-triple-0-telstra-network/105920816
This was rubbish legislation that screwed customers' ability to choose handsets and forces others to unnecessarily upgrade.
#000 #mobile
Big claim here from Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, but in this case, it seems it might be a little overblown...
https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12747-telstra-denies-scattered-lapsus-hunters-hacking-claim
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