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127 – Testing numbers (e.g. 12722123 reads your number from a Telstra line, 12723123 reads your number for an Optus line) (length varies), dial 12722199 then hang up and the call is returned by the exchange (used to test handset functionality) 1282 – Call information service; 128xx – Call information service
Telstra Store in Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne Telstra Store in the Sturt Mall in Wagga Wagga. Telstra owns and operates a series of retail stores known as Telstra Stores. Some are directly owned and operated by Telstra and some are operated by licensees. [72] As of May 2016, Telstra has a total of 360 retail stores across Australia. [73]
Australia: *10# for Telstra services [2] or *69 on Optus HFC Telephony network. [3] This only allows one to return the last unanswered call, and can cost 35 cents per use. France: 3131; Israel: *42; Japan: 1361 to get number, 1363 to call back. [4] United Kingdom: 1471 (also used in Gibraltar, Ireland, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, and the ...
In March 2014, Telstra sold 70% of the Sensis business to American private equity firm Platinum Equity for $454 million. As a part of the deal Sensis would continue producing and distributing the White Pages directory as required under Telstra's carrier licence. The sale saw Sensis depart Telstra management and begin to operate as a separate ...
An old bakelite ash tray showing an example of a single digit phone number used in the early days of telecommunication. On 12 July 1906 the first Australian wireless overseas messages were sent between Point Lonsdale, Victoria and Devonport, Tasmania. [3] Australia and New Zealand ratified the 1906 Berlin Radio-telegraph Convention in 1907.
Telstra Corporate Centre is an office skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia. Standing 218 m high with 47 floors (43 used as offices), [ 1 ] it is the equal 21st tallest in Melbourne as of 2024. [ 2 ] It is located at 242 Exhibition Street .
Customers who remained with Telstra could dial the override code of 1456 before the area code and phone number to manually select Optus as the carrier for that single call. Since 1 July 1998, consumers have the choice of preselecting their preferred long-distance carrier or dialling the override code before dialling a telephone number.
Telstra agents were left tied up on phone calls with callers, waiting for emergency services to answer, thus calls in the 000 queue were unable to be answered. Callers in a queue waiting for a Telstra agent to answer the phone were played an RVA every 30 seconds in the following terms, "You have dialled the Emergency Triple Zero number.