Optus announced at a media briefing in Sydney today that they would become the third carrier in Australia to begin construction of their own LTE network. The network would first become available in Newcastle, Port Stephens, the Hunter Valley and Macquarie Valley in April of 2012. LTE access in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth are expected [...]
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CommsXpress: Optus Sacks 180 Employees
Posted by grahame on July 27th, 2011
Optus confirmed today that it would be eliminating approximately 180 of its employees as part of a “business transformation project”. The affected workers would be mostly senior and mid level managers in sales and marketing departments. The company is also scrapping plans to fill an additional 70 positions that it had already advertised as being [...]
