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
#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
As I prepare for another bushfire season in NSW, I wonder: will triple zero be there if I need it? | Michael Burge https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/09/rural-bushfire-season-nsw-optus-triple-zero-vital #Telecommunicationsindustry #Emergencyservices #Emergencyplanning #Australiaweather #RuralAustralia #NewSouthWales #Australianews #Bushfires #Wildfires #Telecoms #Telstra
A wild #telstra (wellakshully Telecom Australia) Computerphone appears
In MOVE, Shepparton
Not sure if it works, or how healthy those mini tape carts still are!
@timixretroplays Do you want it rated on a scale of "1 to Fucking #Telstra"
Australia will overhaul telecommunications after Optus emergency call failure linked to 4 deaths
Optus was fined more than $12mil back in Nov. 8, 2023 for a similar breach of emergency call rules while Telstra was fined $3mil for failing to comply with emergency call rules..
Telstra issues warning after dodgy discovery in bush highlights ‘massive’ $100 million issue
Telstra has issued a warning after a 60-metre-long cable was found dumped in remote bushland this week, with…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #Coppercables #coppertheft #DaveDudley #telecommunicationsnetwork #telstra #Townsville #Yahoo
https://www.newsbeep.com/132535/
The C'wth sloshes billions into #Telstra and #Optus coffers to rollout #5G infrastructure which is wholly inadequate and poorly suited for regional and remote conditions, while even basic phone service is unreliable, patchy or just downright unavailable many people. We need appropriate, rugged, reliable and resilient communications infrastructure, not gimmicks and techwank.
Meanwhile #NBN contemplates retiring #SkyMuster and handing regional and remote users cash and our data over to #JeffBezos and #Amazon through #ProjectKuiper
Just found out Yellow Pages and White Pages still exist! You can order them. Tempted to, just to see what's in them these days
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