{"id":86465,"date":"1999-12-31T00:20:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/telstras-3g-service-goes-live\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:20:00","slug":"telstras-3g-service-goes-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/telstras-3g-service-goes-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Telstra&#039;s 3G Service Goes Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telstra has publicly launched its Third Generation phone and data service which it is rolling out thanks to a deal to piggyback on Hutchison&#8217;s Three network.<\/p>\n<p><p><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Leading with Australian Idol content as well as an existing portfolio of more than 200 i-mode content sites including video content from NRL, AFL, V8 Supercars, National Nine News, Sky News and movie trailers from yourMovies, Telstra&#8217;s advertising campaign will likely accelerate the take up of 3G phone services, prior to the Vodaphone\/Optus service coming on-line later this year.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Telstra&#8217;s Head of Pioneers Marketing, Mr Mike Robey, said the new Australian Idol video diaries would be added to the site as they became available and would be among a range of great new mobile phone content available from Telstra.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These new high speed mobile services also offer Telstra customers new video features including video calling, video MessageBank and video ring tones,&#8221; Mr Robey said. &#8220;The launch of Telstra&#8217;s new mobile services represents a major shift in the way our customers can communicate and access information on their mobile phone.&#8221; <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Subscribers will be able to send and receive email from their mobile phone using both Yahoo! and Telstra BigPond email accounts.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>The network is available in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Telstra is giving customers a choice of four new handsets and two new capped plans. 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