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Phones will show a satellite symbol in the top right when connected to the service.

How Telstra’s new satellite-to-mobile messaging lets you text using Starlink

Telstra has become the first Australian telco to activate “direct to cell” functionality with SpaceX’s Starlink satellites.

  • Tim Biggs

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Workers need to upskill in AI and digital literacy.
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AI could cure cancer, and kill your job

Someone will have to pay for the trillion dollars being invested in artificial intelligence. Will it be the workers?

  • Colin Kruger
The Telstra data centre in Clayton generates 9pc of CIP’s rental income.

Tired of waiting on hold? Telstra thinks this might fix that problem

The telco wants everything from customer service to internal structure reimagined by AI.

  • Tim Biggs
Foxtel’s headquarters in Sydney. The company is being sold by News Corp.

Job cuts hit Foxtel, four weeks into new ownership

The pay TV and streaming operator has made 100 staff redundant after being acquired by British firm DAZN. 

  • Calum Jaspan
Giulia Di Sipio (left) and Jordy Kornfeld run the closest mental health service to this Brunswick West phone box.

Telstra wants three nondescript phone boxes heritage listed. Here’s why

Even in the age of mobile devices, these public phones have proven indispensable.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Australian Ballet dancers Joseph Romancewicz and Belle Urwin in a rehearsal room at the Sydney Opera House. Telstra Let’s Dance provides rare opportunities for country kids to learn directly from The Australian Ballets talented artists and go behind the scenes of life as a professional ballet dancer, an opportunity rarely given to kids in regional areas. Sydney. April 24, 2025. Photo: Louise Kennerley

‘Take down the walls’: The innovative program bringing ballet to the bush

Hundreds of children in regional Australia will have the opportunity to learn from the Australian Ballet’s teachers and dancers.

  • Cindy Yin
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A pocket of Mount Gravatt on Brisbane’s southside where 5G reception struggles.

Brisbane suburbs where 5G struggles – and why your reception bars can’t be trusted

There are dozens of pockets across the city where people have frequent mobile service failure and calls dropping out – and the bars on their phones could be lying to them. Here’s why.

  • Marissa Calligeros and Angus Dalton
Saudi Arabia may have had a hand in News Corp’s Foxtel sale. Rupert Murdoch [left]; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman [right]

Foxtel’s sale backed by Saudi dollars close to the finish line

With the foreign investment watchdog spending the past three months scrutinising the deal, broadcast rights for AFL, NRL, cricket and Formula 1 could soon be in the hands of a global sports-streaming giant.

  • Calum Jaspan
Telstra generic pics. 20th June 2018 The Age Fairfaxmedia News Picture by JOE ARMAO

Telstra shares surge higher amid bumper dividend, profit

The telco lifted its first-half profit and dividend while chief executive Vicki Brady also announced a $750 million share buyback plan.

  • David Swan
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Telstra wants to hang up on Redfern exchange for $20m

Telco giant Telstra is rolling on with its property sales program seeking to offload a prime site in Sydney’s Redfern.

  • Carolyn Cummins

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