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]]>On a 24 month contract the show piece device is only going to cost $112 per month for a $2,600 smartphone.
So why should you consider buying a flip phone.
The Wall Street Journal wrote recently?
In case you hadn’t noticed, our phone screens have gotten unmanageably huge. And smartphone sales have slowed, as we see less incentive in upgrading from one black rectangle to another.
Meanwhile, flexible and foldable screens are rapidly evolving and dropping in price. What better way to get us to buy a new thing than sell us a new thing that actually looks like a new thing?
The new reimagined Motorola Razr can now be seen in-store across ten Telstra retail outlets in Australia.
Danny Adamopoulos, General Manager of Sales, APAC for Mature Markets, Motorola said “The Telstra partnership adds to the device’s availability from JB Hi-Fi and the Motorola online store.
said the partnership with Telstra will provide even more options for those consumers looking to purchase the Razr.
“I’m delighted we are able to partner with Telstra to bring this revolutionary smartphone to their customers. The original RAZR was a fashion icon that defined a generation and became an integral part of pop culture. With its clamshell-style flexible display, the reimagined Razr offers consumers the upgraded smartphone experience they are after, with some iconic elements they know and love.”
The Motorola Razr features Motorola’s architected, industry-first, patent-protected zero-gap hinge that allows both sides of the customised polymer flexible display system to remain perfectly flush when closed and protects the display from debris and dust as well as re-engineered antennas to fit in a space twice as small as today’s smartphones, with water resistance and splash-proof protection.
To find out more about purchasing a Motorola Razr on a Telstra plan please visit:
• https://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/mobiles-on-a-plan/motorola/motorola-razr-4g-fold
• https://www.telstra.com.au/small-business/mobile-phones/mobiles-on-a-plan/motorola/motorola-razr-4g-fold
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Telstra has recently inked a peer relationship with Vocus – an arrangement the ACCC has welcomed.
Peering arrangements allow ISPs to physically connect to other networks, exchanging internet traffic often without payment.
ACCC Chair, Rod Sims, asserts ISP collaboration will birth downstream positive benefits, with transparency imperative:
“We welcome the recent agreement between Telstra and Vocus to enter into a peering arrangement”
“Gaining peering with other networks enables carriers to provide more competitive wholesale ‘transit’ services to other ISPs, which should have positive impacts in downstream markets including the corporate internet market”
“It is important that the big ISPs in particular publicise and apply their criteria in good faith, so that other providers have a transparent pathway to peering status, as they attain additional scale with the rollout of the NBN and other next generation fixed and mobile networks.”
Optus, Telstra and TPG have recently published their peer relationship criteria for other ISPs, outlining requirements to directly interconnect on a settlement free basis.
The ACCC has also issued an update about its assessment of competitiveness concerning internet interconnection services here.
Optus, Telstra, and TPG are known to have long-established peering relationships with each other (and Verizon).
To date, other ISPs had limited visibility to this criteria, to determine whether or not to enter a peering agreement.
Optus, Telstra and TPG also known to offer paid internet interconnection services (i.e. ‘transit)’ to other ISPs, allowing them to gain full connectivity to the wider internet.
Peering criterias can include geographic network reach, location of exchange points, minimum capacity requirements, and symmetry and volume of traffic exchanged.
Metrics are used to determine whether both parties will receive mutual benefit from a peering agreement.
Further information is available on the ACCC’s website here.
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]]>Movus’s FitMachine system comprises a sensor that attaches magnetically to the motor and monitors vibration, noise and temperature. Data is passed to a Movus IoT platform that uses artificial intelligence to determine when the motor is not functioning correctly.
Telstra Ventures MD Matthew Koertge said Movus aligns well with Telstra’s broader IoT strategy and would provide “a compelling IoT value proposition for machinery owners and a unique opportunity to capture value in the ‘Industry 4.0’ market.”
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]]>The new ‘Telstra Calling for Office 365’ is set to launch in mid-2018, and will be bundled into several MS Office programs, with the addition of Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams.
Just last week, Microsoft revealed 200,000 organisations are using ‘Teams’, up from 125,000 six months ago.
The product will enable Telstra to further expand into corporate and business segments, with many retiring PABX telephone systems.
The partnership is heralded the first of its kind between Microsoft and any global telco.
Telstra Executive Director of Global Products, Michelle Bendschneider, affirms the new service follows several years of relationship building between the telco and Microsoft.
The new calling service will be sold as a standalone offering, and Bendschneider claims it’s one of Telstra’s most significant product launches this year:
“Launching a product like this caters for, not just the large enterprises, but more importantly the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Australian organisations that will need to re-plumb and rewire their communications and collaborations environment ahead of a number of things changing in the market like the NBN”.
Microsoft Australia COO, Rachel Bondi, claims Telstra’s new product reflects the close relationship between both companies:
“This is a unique offering in the Australian marketplace. We have Microsoft Office calling and hybrid solutions in other markets, but this is co-created for Microsoft and Telstra only in Australia”.
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]]>The watchdog is assessing whether Telstra’s variations will offer sufficient protection for consumers to maintain access to services delivered by the NBN. Rollout of FttC technology is scheduled to commence next year.
ACCC chairman Rod Sims says it’s important the existing service is not disconnected without customer consent: “Once the FTTC technology is ready to be deployed, the migration plan is intended to promote efficient disconnections and minimal disruption in the switchover to NBN-based services,” he said late last week.
“It is important that the existing service is not disconnected without the customer’s consent until the NBN-based service is successfully activated”.
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