COVID-19 offers – Optus and Telstra free data to help stay connected
Both Optus and Telstra have free COVID-19 offers - upgrades to data – and we presume a raft of MVNOs will be next.
Here are the free data COVID-19 offers (w...
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Optus coptus $504K fine for incessantly spamming customers
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found that Optus (a Singtel company) continued to send marketing messages to customers after they had ...
ITy Bytes 1 April – no joke! Just news Bytes you need.
ITy Bytes 1 April summarises the news that was not quite large enough to warrant a full story. In this edition
Facebook knows where you are despite Apple a...
Optus coptus $10 million fine – ACCC wins again, and again
The ACCC had another win in the Federal Court. First Telstra, now Optus. Who is next?
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TIO report 2017/18 reveals litany of complaints
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO report 2017/18)
reveals a litany of complaints with Telstra leading the way and Optus not far
behind.
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Galaxy Note9 comment and Telstra, Optus and Vodafone plans
At precisely 1.30 am this morning, the time of the Samsung Galaxy Note9 launch in New York, bleary-eyed Samsung and Telco elves and website minions were readyin...
Everyone is talking about the Samsung Galaxy S9
GadgetGuy presents a round up of Samsung Galaxy S9 offers and accessories.
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Battle of the Widgets
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I decided to adopt a second SIM to use for testing phones to avoid the hassle of switching out my main SIM all the time. I’ve be...
Optus Oddities
My Telstra ADSL broadband went down today. (NBN, what’s that?) After an hour on the phone with a very helpful Telstra tech, I happened to pick up the land line ...
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Review: Review: Optus Home Wireless Broadband
Optus's Home Wireless Broadband is a 4G connection that you can share with your household, and easy to take with you when moving out. ...
Phones get playful: hands-on with LG’s G5
For so long, phones have been about being sleek, being elegant, or just so well built that a drop wouldn’t knock any confidence a phone may or may not have. But LG’s latest is more about playing, and that’s good news for consumers keen for something new....
Oppo’s value-packed F1 gets more compelling pricing
Provided you can forgive the camera, Oppo’s F1 metal-bodied budget F1 already offered solid value, but with a price change this week, Oppo and Optus may have moved things to brilliance for bargain hunters....