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“Telstra is expecting to shrink its #workforce by 2030 with “AI #efficiencies” potentially coming through #CustomerService, software development and the use of autonomous #AIAgents, the company has told investors on Tuesday.

The telco’s chief executive, #VickiBrady, told the #Telstra’s annual #InvestorDay on Tuesday that #ArtificialIntelligence “will be a significant unlock when it comes to enabling our #workforce”.

“We will embrace AI, as every business will need to, and we expect the pace of change over the next five years to be extraordinary,”

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“Ackland said the more than $1bn of capital #expenditure and operating expenditure on #software #development and #IT was another area #AI “has the potential to fundamentally change how this is done”.

Look who’s been consulting the economic tea-leaves. Will Vicki and her team be sacked if/when the plan fails?

Of course not.

#WhiteCollar / #sackings / #australia <theguardian.com/business/2025/>

The Guardian · Telstra expects to shrink workforce as it leans in ‘hard’ on AI — including in customer serviceBy Josh Taylor
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Syulang

Well.... that's an understatement. I've rarely seen a bigger, more complete, continent spanning utterly failure of planning and basic competency than #Telstra and the #3Gshutdown. It's been a complete and total omnifailure on every conceivable level.... technical, ethical, managerial, the list goes on.

Worst of all, it's remote and regional #Australia, where we're disproportionately poor and vulnerable, that has been left holding the bag for it all.

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-19/vod

ABC News · Vodafone alleges rival Telstra has 'misled' customers about mobile coverageBy Rhiana Whitson
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“The Australian Electoral Commission is planning on using Elon Musk’s Starlink services as back up for transmitting #voting results information in the upcoming federal election.

In a contract published late last year, the #AEC appointed #Telstra responsible for the agency’s fixed line and #Starlink services until mid-2027, in a deal worth $1.38m. A spokesperson for the AEC confirmed Starlink could be used in the upcoming election for *sensitive election data*.”

The question I ask myself is why?

<theguardian.com/australia-news>

The Guardian · Elon Musk’s Starlink could be used to transmit Australian election voting resultsBy Josh Taylor
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Tim Richards

Has anyone else noticed some weird Telstra black spots that have appeared in the last few months? There's an odd one right at the Flinders/Elizabeth St corner; if you're on a tram you have to wait till it's moved forward a bit before it disappears. Another odd one is next to the Children's Hospital. Strange stuff.

#telstra#australia
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

Seriously, #Australia's #2G & #3G #Shutdown and #IMEI-based #Blocklisting WILL inevitably kill people

And the only "tool" there is is #Telstra's Website and just teting random IMEIs only yields two possible results:

  1. 'We don't know this device at all'

  2. "'We've not blocklisted it'*

Even when testing it with obvious #2Gonly & #3Gonly devices that certainly don't support #VoLTE...

YouTubeAustralia’s New Firewall IMEI BLOCKED 516,875 Active Phones Overnight + Tourists Phones BlockedBy Hugh Jeffreys
#GreatFirewallOfAustralia
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Neko :ablobcatcoffee:

I have solved* my 4G VoLTE #3gShutdown problem

*- well, at least unblocked myself so I can receive SMS so I could, in theory, port my number off #Optus † and maybe use #Telstra ? Via #AldiMobile maybe? Which possibly perhaps won't arbitrarily block my VoLTE-capable phone perhaps why not some people believe.

†- which is kinda holding my number hostage, since I need to receive SMS to prove I own the number for porting purposes, but am barred from using my old phone with the network because botched ACMA legislation.

A Nokia 2660 flip phone sits closed on a table. It is black, with a small LCD screen showing the time.
Nokia 2660 flip phone, opened. The OS is reminiscent of the old S60 Symbian phones, with a 3x3 grid of icons that must be navigated using the keypad. The keypad has a central navigation d-pad, answer and hang-up buttons, and very large numeric buttons for the elderly, like me I guess, I'm elderly now.
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Peter Relph

Isn't it odd, other Aussie rural dwellers may sympathise

I can't remember any occasion when StarTrack actually found us at home, especially as I am a hermit who rarely leaves home.

Yesterday, like every other time they attempted to deliver something, we weren't home (we were) so they had to leave a card (I can't seem to find it anywhere)

Other couriers always find us at home, but when StarTrack calls we are always out & the card always disappears

It's a problem #StarTrack

#AusPost#Telstra
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