Telstra

Telstra is Australia’s largest and most efficient telecommunications company, which provides one of the best-known brands in the country. They offer a full range of services and compete in all areas of telecommunications both domestically and internationally. Telstra’s vision is to enhance its position as the leading full service telecommunications and information Service Company in Australia as well as to expand its presence internationally. (Telstra Website, 2008)

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Barb Williams and Rick Thomas, while attending an executive education course at a well-known business school, came across a case which involved calculating the cost of capital for Telus Corporation (Telus). Basic data such as the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Data on Telus’ Common Stock, Market Index, and the Average Annual Returns in North American Capital Markets were provided. In order to calculate Telus’ cost of capital we need to calculate the company’s Cost of Equity, Cost of Debt, and Tax Rate along with their weighted cost and then apply these to the Weighted

This first work term was done at Telus Corporation (also known as TELUS), one of the three major telecommunications companies operating in Canada. The duration of the work term was spent working in the Enterprise Architecture department as a Technology Architecture Assistant, and working with the Wireless Development team as a temporary Software Tester.

From the presentation of the Facts, Telstra has breached the law. They are not the official telecommunication partners of the official technology partners but they are using the

1.0 IntroductionTelstra Corporation is a telecommunications and information services company. It provides a range of services including fixed line services, Internet access, and business services. Telstra is the market leader in the telecommunication industry in Australia, with one of the most prominent brand names. However, its products and operating services face an increasing threat from competitors. An analysis with recommendations of Telstra marketing is necessary in order to improve its performance.

There may have been a touch of overkill in the headline about Telstra's massive outage, but it was another sign of how dependent we now are as a nation on internet and phone connections wherever we go.

Telstra have dominated the telecommunications market for over a century by providing integrated services with vast geographical coverage. Telstra’s main areas of expertise are providing telephone, mobile, internet services and its 3G network to households and businesses across Australia with 9.2 million fixed line services and 9.7 million mobile services. Telstra have strived to be number one in their industry and achieve ultimate customer satisfaction (Telstra website 2009).

The telecommunications coverage in rural and regional areas in Australia has monopolistic characteristics. Telstra has a competitive advantage over Optus with 99.3% coverage of the population compared to Optus with a 98.5%, this is equivalent to an estimated 192,000 more potential customers. Although Telstra has this competitive advantage they claim that the revenue received from their rural base stations does not cover the cost of development and maintenance.3.

When it comes to internet speed, Telstra just made the mark after launching a mobile network that is ten times faster than Australia’s New Broadband Network.

In March 2007, the Australian Labor Party rolled out its broadband voting strategy to augment internet momentums for 98 percent of Australia citizens to make forty times faster. Labor believed that its nationwide broadband network (NBN) would provide significant national economic advantages and novel services for the gain of the many consumers, specifically those in the regional and rural parts. Labor obligated that I t would associate with the private division to provide a fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) NBN for more than five years to 98 percent of the inhabitants with least amount speeds of 12 megabits every second. Labor also dedicated that within a six-month time

All organizations needed to have an agreement to roll out the national broadband network and so Telstra did it straight away and now are potentially looking at over a $280 million dollar income in the next 4 years, the nbn is an open access data network, which is based at the premises it allows fixed wireless and satellite

Telstra is Australia Biggest Telecommunications Company that offers a full range of telecom services throughout Australia. Telstra provides basic access services to homes and businesses. Local and long-distance telephone calls services, mobile and Internet services. Telstra has 3.5 million broadband subscribers and over 15 million mobile telephony subscribers.

In 2005 Telstra launched its Next G network which later became the fastest wireless internet service in the world at speed reaching up to 42Mbit/s (Megabit per second) in addition to becoming the most covered wireless network in Australia; covering 99 percent of Australia’s populated areas. This helped transform its business practice from product focused to customer focused as Australian consumers were seeking reliable coverage for their mobile communications. Furthermore, in 2007 Telstra transformed from its old Customer