Australia

Ever since David Thodey took over the reins at Australia's largest telco Telstra has embraced the new direction being taken by the telecoms industry, based on a ubiquitous, robust, affordable infrastructure that can be used to lift telecommunications into the at once stage, where he business opportunities will be to put it more exactly different from those of the past. This is the brave new world of internet media, Internet of Things, where a range of new industry sectors will take centre-stage. These include healthcare, education, energy, commerce and media.

Telstra's transitional process evidently shows that it shares the vision that has been developed around the national broadband network. However not only that, the company is now emerging as a leader in the industry - putting its new approach into practice, with a focus on the customer, technology and new business opportunities.

The at once stage in that process

This report analyses the at once stage in that process, which was announced in mid-2011. It as well provides an analysis of the company's $800 million investment plan for cloud computing and analysis on the October 2011 Telstra shareholder vote for the NBN.