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COMPANY NEWS by Telstra: Earlier in July, we talked about the results of our new SMS scam blocking feature, which in the preceeding three months since it was launched, had blocked over 185 million scam text messages.

It’s hardly a surprise, but new research reveals that Australia has become a digital nation with mobile phones used by 97% of the population and the internet used weekly by 90% of us.

Telstra has released a new, Android-based, version of its T-Hub combined tablet and cordless home phone.

Telstra has unveiled ambitious plans to provide everything the consumer of the connected home might need in the way of connectivity, content, services and the devices to make use of these.

UPDATE: Outage appears over for now. Original intro: You'd think the biggest news for today would be the death match between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, but an apparent Telstra outage may well eclipse the two politicians as a story of much greater significance to the everyday Australian.

Telstra is moving BigPond customers onto a Windows Live email service while retaining their existing email addresses. Customers will also receive other Windows Live services.

Internode has a history of coming out on top of ISP customer satisfaction surveys, and has just clocked an impressive 94% satisfaction on the latest Roy Morgan Research ISP survey.

Australians would like parental controls on the internet at an ISP level, according to a poll just published, and they'd like it for free, so they can block websites with gambling or adult content from reaching their kids.

National broadband company Internode seems to have found the formula for keeping its Internet customers happy, with the ISP once again topping an industry survey, this time with a 96 percent customer satisfaction rating, and with rival iiNet the only other ISP with a rating of more than 90 percent.

We don't yet know why, but we sure know what was breached.  60,000 user accounts containing detailed of their accounts (including passwords) and the services used.  The Privacy Commissioner is investigating.

Communications Alliance and five of Australia's largest ISPs - Telstra BigPond, iiNet, Optus, iPrimus and Internode - have proposed an education-based notice scheme to combat online copyright infringement.

Telstra has just announced plans to upgrade its HFC network in Adelaide, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney and Perth to support download speeds of up to 100Mbps, but oddly it does not seem to be too keen to tell customers about it.

BigPond cable customers in all mainland capitals and the Gold Coast are set to join Melbourne with speed upgrades to their broadband services, with download speeds of up to 100 megabits per second into their homes and for sharing across multiple users.

Telstra has introduced an online portal that enables its postpaid mobile customers to track their data usage and spending from their handsets. However it provides no information to users of 'capped' plans on how much of their monthly included call/sms/mms value they have used.

Online DVD rental company Quickflix (ASX: QFX) has announced its entry into the IPTV market, signing an agreement with Sony Australia to provide a subscription movies streaming service through Sony's Internet connected TVs and other devices.

Fresh from the announcement yesterday to take on the customers and inventory of Telstra's BigPond DVD rental business, Quickflix has announced the appointment of the former head of BigPond, Justin Milne as deputy chairman and non-executive director.

Although the death of DVD rental stores was predicted long ago and saw bookstores fall and fail in a far more spectacular fashion, Telstra's sale of its BigPond DVD movie rental business may well be the last nail in the DVD's coffin.

Telstra has struck a deal with Twentieth Century Fox that will enable it to provide Twentieth Century Fox film and television titles to Telstra customers via IPTV to the T-Box, smart TVs and BigPond.com.

After struggling to make the transition from the world of print to online advertising, Sensis is to lose its digital media arm to parent Telstra where it will be merged with BigPond Advertising and Telstra Classifieds to forma new integrated digital advertising business.