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Residents, businesses and visitors across rural and regional Australia are now benefitting from more than 50,000 square kilometres of new or improved mobile coverage, with Telstra activating its 100th mobile base station under the Federal Government’s Mobile Black Spot Program (MBSP).

Telstra, Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), Motorola Solutions, and Qualcomm Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated have achieved the first LTE Broadcast enabled PTT call on Telstra’s commercial LANES Solution. Telstra’s LTE Broadcast capability allows PTT group calls to be delivered simultaneously to all members of a group call with high assurance, low latency and separated from regular mobile traffic.

Together with Ericsson, Telstra is progressively deploying LTE-Broadcast (LTE-B) across its network at national scale in 2018.

Pilot gives participants immediate access to new release content in premium quality with no impact to device performance or data plans.

At Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Telstra has selected Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) for several key programs supporting Telstra’s “Network of the Future” transformation program.

Telstra today announced it had added net new retail mobile services and retail fixed broadband customers in the first half of financial year 2017, reporting total income up 2.2 per cent and EBITDA up 2.4 per cent on a guidance basis and excluding the impact of regulatory decisions.

Epworth HealthCare has selected Telstra Health’s Patient Flow Manager, to help them improve efficiency in managing bed occupancy and movement at their Epworth Richmond hospital.

Telstra announces data free live streaming of all games for Telstra mobile customers through the AFL, NRL and Netball apps. Telstra predicts AFL and NRL live streams per round will break the 3 million stream mark in the 2017 season, a first for mobile sports streaming in Australia.

Nano satellites that monitor crop health, cameras that map the underground world, and medical sensors that help hospital patients spend less time in hospital are just some of the world-changing startups who have been accepted into muru-D’s fourth Sydney cohort.