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Please find page 14 of the 2010 Telstra annual report below. You can navigate through the pages in the report by either clicking on the pages listed below, or by using the keyword search tool below to find specific information within the annual report.Telstra Country Wide
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Established in 2000, Telstra Country Wide actively supports local community groups
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interests of our communities and highlights what matters most to people living in
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include nurturing up-and-coming musical talent through the long term support of the
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and bridging the metro-country divide through a three-year partnership with One
Laptop Per Child Australia which aims to deploy educational laptops to children living
in remote communities.
Since its inception in 2003, including this year, the Telstra Assistance Fund has provided
more than $8.5 million worth of equipment grants to more than 6,500 community and
sporting clubs across Australia. These clubs include local football, surf life saving and
swimming clubs.
For more information on Telstra’s community programs and initiatives go to
www.ideasforgood.com.au/category/community
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programs that
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of the industry including customer churn and transfer processes that affect hundreds
of thousands of customer transfers every year. The provision of these services
underpins the competitive telecommunications landscape we have in Australia.
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Telstra Wholesale embarked on a Fibre To The Premises technology trial in Point
Cook in Melbourne’s western suburbs, delivering voice and broadband products with
speeds up to 100Mbps to wholesale customers servicing residents in Point Cook. To
date, eight Wholesale customers have taken the opportunity to partner with Telstra
to learn from this exciting technology trial.
Telstra Wholesale is also developing smarter, simpler solutions to enable its
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Solution’ launched earlier this year offers simple, scalable national access and
aggregation connectivity with a choice of bandwidths. The solution is supported
by a single contract and simple pricing, quoting, contracting, ordering and billing
processes.
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