Telstra has long-touted its regional and outback-friendly mobile coverage. But a recent spat shows Australia may need some help from Elon Musk and co.

He says that Telstra has "abused" the power granted to it under the new direction, and displayed "anti-competitive behaviour" by blocking his phone despite it being capable of making emergency calls.

A government audit of mobile phone coverage reveals there are swathes of Australia where a Telstra signal can only be accessed with an external antenna, in an apparent contradiction to the telco ...

Until May 2025, Telstra had failed to mention that its coverage maps, claimed to cover 99.7 per cent of the population, were also based on the coverage of external antennas and boosters, many of ...

The phone, dubbed the Remote Connector by Telstra, sits in the outback town of Doomadgee, and has connected thousands of Australians during disaster events. Close to 1,400 calls have been made on ...

In far north-west Queensland, Telstra recorded about one call for every person in the remote Indigenous town of Doomadgee – population 1387 – from its isolated public phone over the past year.

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Australia’s Telstra is the latest telco to team up with SpaceX’s Starlink to offer satellite-to-smartphone services But it’s not an exclusive relationship, as Starlink has long been working with a ...

Imagine no Instagram scrolling, no watching Netflix, no checking emails and no jumping on a work video call. Many commuters are wondering why their phone reception is so poor when on trains.

Telstra customers on prepaid mobile plans have been hit with a $4 price hike this week, while others have copped a $20 monthly rise. · Source: Getty Telstra customers have been hit with another price ...

Telstra added 560,000 new mobile phone customers to its network, representing 4.1 percent increase. Mobile services revenue grew by 5.6 percent to $10.7 billion.

Telstra and Optus, telecom operators in Australia, will not sign Google for pre-installing its search services and setting as the default search function on Android devices they supply, the ACCC said.