The Latest Breaking News from Telstra

Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin is set to front a Senate inquiry this week, probing last week’s colossal outage which left millions stranded without internet or mobile phone connectivity for a staggering 14 hours.

The proposal is similar to changes Canada introduced last year after a lengthy outage nearly identical to the Optus one

The consequence of governments selling off critical infrastructure to private companies has just been witnessed by all

Journalism is a competitive industry, with no shortage of reporters willing to use dirty tactics to win scoops and pump up circulation or ratings. But in spite of such lapses, most journalists also take seriously their role as a trusted source of information and custodians of a vital public service.

How did the Optus network throw your day out? Were you locked out of internet banking? Did you find yourself working from your local library? Let us know in the comments below

Advances in mobile, wireless and satellite tech are likely to feature in coming discussions ahead of an overhaul of telecommunication services in the bush.

There are more than 1,500 remote First Nations communities and homelands around Australia, and about 670 of them have no mobile phone coverage. In research with 495 people from ten remote communities, we found 45.9% were “highly excluded” from increasingly important digital services and tools.

A race to stop cyber attacks is shifting to the gigantic task of vetting third-party providers, with ethical hackers used to stamp out threats.

Australian corporate governance has become too bureaucratic, Telstra chairman John Mullen has told shareholders in his final address before retiring.

Australians have made their anger known, lodging more than one million complaints to their internet, mobile and phone providers in the last financial year.

Internal review led by former Telstra boss Ziggy Switkowski finds ‘whatever it takes’ culture at accounting firm contributed to serious ethical failure