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Google and Optus team up on cable project
News Google has joined Optus and four other carriers to build a new high-bandwidth submarine cable system between the US and Japan, in a move to address its broadband capacity needs. The consortium, consisting of Optus's parent company SingTel, Bharti...
[February 27, 2008, 9:31]
'Good citizenship' comes between Australians and their mobile porn
News "Good corporate citizenship" is all that stands between Optus and its plans to introduce adult content to its mobile phone service, the SingTel-owned company said late yesterday. Chris Lane, director Optus Mobile Partners, said at the launch of the...
[October 8, 2004, 13:20]
Brits in Australia struggle to roam
News Vodafone Australia is in discussions with Optus to overcome technical problems hampering its global roaming links to the United Kingdom. Vodafone is currently assessing this incident and is working with Optus to ensure that this does not to occur...
[January 12, 2004, 7:55]
Microsoft Smartphone connects down under
News Australia's Optus on Tuesday teamed up with Microsoft to release a GPRS handset based on Microsoft's Windows for Smartphones software, giving Microsoft another backer for its mobile phone plans. Optus hopes to stimulate mobile data usage with this...
[June 3, 2003, 8:17]
Australian telecoms hacker charged
News A Sydney man has been charged over a hack attack on Optus last year, during which it is alleged over 400,000 customer passwords may have been compromised. A spokesperson for Optus, the country's second largest telecommunications carrier, conceded...
[July 11, 2002, 8:25]
Excite@Home snoops on user downloads
News The ISP informed users of its Optus@Home broadband service that it would terminate customer accounts found to be downloading pirate software or copyright material. A message posted on a public newsgroup service from Cable & Wireless Optus, which...
[August 22, 2001, 12:36]
Australian bush WiMax network gets go-ahead
News The communications minister Helen Coonan yesterday announced that the funding agreement with OPEL, a joint venture between Optus and Elders, has gone ahead. The deal will see the government contributing around AU$938m (£380m) to the WiMax...
[September 10, 2007, 11:57]
Report dismisses MMS hype
News Optus, an Australian mobile operator, defended its decision to enter the MMS market despite the most recent predictions. We have provided a public forecast that 25 percent of Optus revenue will come from data-related services by 2005, and we're on...
[August 9, 2002, 8:10]
One wireless viewpoint: 'WAP is crap'
News Cable & Wireless Optus operates its WAP portal as a walled garden and "started off this way, based on customer research," CWO general manager of Mobile, Internet and Data Finola Thompson said. Stock quotes and horoscopes are the two most popular...
[June 30, 2000, 10:12]
More 3G sales lined up for this year
News In Australia, the procedure could be delayed by concerns over the sale of operator Cable & Wireless Optus. Of the five Australian companies registered for the auction, four are involved in purchasing Optus assets, which could make it difficult to...
[February 16, 2001, 14:28]
Mobile firms gear up for New Year text-fest
News Optus spokesperson Melissa Favero told ZDNet Australia that the company had recently optimised all of its base stations to ensure that maximum traffic levels could be accommodated. Although Optus has no plans to install extra mobile base stations...
[December 30, 2003, 8:05]
Excite@Home IP flaw exposed
News Excite@Home -- an Internet service run in Australia by Cable & Wireless Optus -- has warned it will take action against anybody who attempts utilise an IP vulnerability that allows a single user to block up to 127 IP addresses, effectively...
[August 4, 2000, 9:50]
Plane tickets texted to Australian travellers
News JetSMS, which is developed by Optus and Start Corporation, allows Jetstar customers connected to any mobile network within Australia to make ticketless bookings 24 hours a day with the airline by SMS.
[May 20, 2004, 16:25]
Telco sues Australian minister over WiMax scheme
News Coonan revealed in June that it had selected Opel, a joint venture between Optus and Elders, to build the bush WiMax network and that the funding for the project had been increased to AU$1bn, up from the AU$600m (£253m) originally earmarked for...
[August 6, 2007, 16:09]
BSkyB partner closes UK operations
News Comet Satellite & Cable installs infrastructure for Pay TV operators Foxtel and Austar, as well as Cable & Wireless Optus. Australian-based Comet Satellite & Cable has been forced to retreat from the United Kingdom market, leaving 160 employees in...
[May 24, 2001, 10:44]
One.Tel sacks one thousand workers
News The CPSU is calling on industry big wigs Telstra and Optus to do the right thing and provide employment to redundant One.Tel workers. One thousand One.Tel staff were sacked on Friday following the collapse of the junior telco.
[June 11, 2001, 11:26]
Australia's first WiMax network comes to Sydney
News The network will be run by a joint venture between Optus and Elders and will receive around AU$1bn in government funding in total. One company claims to have beaten the government's AU$1bn (£423m) WiMax network to the punch with the first...
[July 31, 2007, 12:10]
Australian group to lobby for IPv6
News Telstra has been experimenting with IPv6 technology since April last year, with Optus hot on its heels, he said. A new IPv6 forum will be "soft-launched" at next week's IPv6 mini-conference, itself a prelude event to Linux.conf.au 2004 in Adelaide.
[January 7, 2004, 9:35]
Asia-Pacific pilots Wi-Fi roaming
News The launch comes amid moves by the telecommunications heavyweight to shore up its international ties in the face of tough regional competition from Singapore Telecommunications, owner of Australia's No.carrier, SingTel Optus.
[July 22, 2003, 8:57]
Trojan compromises email delivery
News Both Optus and OzEmail customers have reported experiencing email delays in recent days but Bigpond customers report that their email traffic to their inboxes has been slowed to less than one a day. US-based Internet security researchers have...
[October 15, 2003, 10:10]
