This Month
New Telstra director Maxine Brenner hit with 17pc protest vote
Chairman John Mullen refused at the AGM to answer questions about Ms Brenner’s ability after concerns were raised over her tenure on the board of Qantas Airways.
- Jenny Wiggins
Vocus prepares $6 billion debt deal to bankroll TPG fibre tilt
Vocus, owned by Macquarie and Aware Super, has kicked off talks to put together a debt syndicate for its $6.3 billion bid to carve out TPG Telecom’s fibre assets.
- Updated
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
New Telstra director Maxine Brenner to be pressed on Qantas at AGM
The new director will be asked to explain how she handled corporate governance issues while on Qantas’ board at Telstra’s AGM on Tuesday.
- Jenny Wiggins
Telstra seals $267m Versent deal to boost digital services
Analysts say the deal gives Telstra access to a workforce with expertise in highly sought after areas of cloud, security, digital and data services.
- Jenny Wiggins and Tess Bennett
Done deal: Telstra buys cloud services biz Versent for $268m
Telstra boss Vicky Brady has made her first big M&A play.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Versent deal: NTT bows out, Telstra in pole position
Japan’s NTT, one of the world’s largest telecoms groups, have dropped out of the process after a protracted back-and-forth with sellside advisers Goldman Sachs.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Court ruling nears on Optus cyberattack report
A Federal Court justice is expected to rule shortly on whether Optus can stop a report by Deloitte on its 2022 cyberattack from being released.
- Jenny Wiggins
Superloop eyes higher Symbio bid despite declaring ‘best and final’
The telco is reviewing whether to engage in a bidding war with Aussie Broadband after its takeover proposal for the software group was trumped on Friday.
- Jenny Wiggins and Jessica Sier
September
Apple’s new iPhones are hot - but not in a good way, say some users
Shortly after the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max were released, users across the world began reporting that the devices could become uncomfortably warm during use.
- Chris Velazco
The power of data: Forget Twitter, the party’s moved to WhatsApp
As Australians lose interest in sharing their opinions on social media platforms, they are instead jumping into group chats.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why AustralianSuper’s big AI bet isn’t the risk it once was
Up to its neck in Sydney-based infrastructure, AustralianSuper spent the past few years studying data centres globally. When it found its target, it did not muck around.
- Anthony Macdonald
The $108 billion Japanese giant vying with Telstra for Versent
The mooted acquisition, expected to be worth as much as $400 million, was revealed by Street Talk on Thursday. The sale process is being run by Goldman Sachs.
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- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Telstra confirms Versent buyout talks
The telco giant has confirmed it is looking at buying Versent, a consultancy that sells cloud transformation and cybersecurity products and services.
- Tess Bennett
August
- Opinion
- Cybersecurity
Optus hack secrecy leaves questions of competence hanging
It is almost a year since Optus’ big data breach. The telco has decided to keep secret the findings of the independent review it said would help rebuild customers’ trust.
- Paul Smith
Is Elon Musk a threat to Australia?
The mercurial billionaire, who is unusually involved in his companies, has huge commercial interests in China, and a growing foothold in Australia.
- Nick Bonyhady
Chorus starts debt deal meetings; Pepper Money launches $850 debt deal
The goal would be to firm up interest in an Aussie-dollar seven-year debt note that would be fixed rate and rank as senior unsecured debt.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Telstra escalates platform wars with $50m Fetch TV bet
Telstra will start replacing its Telstra TV customers’ set-top boxes with ones from Fetch, creating a 1.3 million-strong streaming aggregation player.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Aussie Broadband eyes Telstra customers as net profit soars
The nation’s fifth-largest provider of broadband lifted its market share to 7.6 per cent from 6.5 per cent a year ago and is targeting 10 per cent by 2025.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Tech Observed
Telcos struggle for public sympathy in big tech battle
The telco sector will open a can of worms if it goes after big tech for more payments, and it may struggle to win the argument.
- Paul Smith
Streaming platforms should pay us for infrastructure, telcos say
Telstra, Optus and TPG say the likes of Netflix, YouTube and Amazon’s cloud and AI services are driving network traffic to unsustainable levels.
- Paul Smith
