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30 Sep 2011
By Gerd Schenkel
Sep
30
2011

Making things easier on Telstra.com

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One of my favourite things about the online world is the way it puts control into the user’s hands. Sure, it’s also good for watching YouTube® vids of annoying oranges and tweeting what you had for lunch (both very important tasks…) but what I love the most is the way you can knock small tasks on the head and get on with what you want to be doing.t-com-new-icons-blog-contentAs Head of Telstra Digital, I pretty much do everything online and from what many of our customers tell us, so do you.

But you also told us we needed to make improvements so you can easily find the information you’re looking for. So, I’m particularly excited to announce that today we’ve launched a handy new self-service portal on Telstra.com that houses all of our online services in the one place.

Now it’s easier than ever before to manage your accounts and a whole range of other services wherever you are, whenever you want. You can pay a bill, recharge your Pre-Paid credit and even activate International Roaming without wading through the entire site, and our nifty new icons will have you where you need to be before you know it!

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In addition to our self-service portal we’ve also giving our home page a fresh new look and while it’s easy on the eye, ultimately it’s about helping you find what you’re looking for…fast.

We’ll be making even more improvements and we’d love to know what you think of the changes. In case you didn’t know, as well as commenting here, you can also share your feedback with us directly on our feedback site.

So come and visit our new home. We’ve spring cleaned, organised and redecorated so using it is an all-round better experience for our customers. You’ll have more time to focus on what matters- there are many YouTube® videos waiting to be discovered!

By Gerd Schenkel

Posts: 11

7 Comments

  1. Josh Rowe says:

    Nice work Telstra team, a very clean look!

  2. Stephen says:

    Hi Greg,
    while I absolutely support your move to put control to the user, unfortunately my Telstra experience does not seem to give me any control at all.

    I have a prepaid Telstra prepaid iPad plan and would like to use the iPad to experience control and freedom to navigate the Telstra/BigPond sites and the rest of the internet as well.

    I want to check my balance on the iPad usage, well I can check yesterdays and overall balance but cannot see what I used the day before when I surfed youtube all day and the week before when all I did was send a few emails. Give me the control to see my overall usage patterns.

    My other BigPond experiences are not really warming to continuing to use the iPad while travelling the countryside around Australia.

    I want to see my other BigPond usage (postpaid mobile broadband) but when I login on the iPad it does not show any usage details at all.

    The I want to participate in the crowd support BigPond initiative, well I cannot login on the iPad it does not seem to be compatible.

    I would like to listen to BigPond Music TV, well not on the iPad.

    Finally I want to update my bigblog Telstra blog – Yep you guessed it – does not work on the iPad –

    Comon Telstra give me the control that you promise.

  3. Gregory Opera says:

    I crtisized the previous changes to Telstra.com, largely because it only affected a few specific areas of the Web site… But now I can see these changes trickling through to most areas of Telstra.com and I have to say, I am quite impressed.

    There’s still some work to do, there’s always work to be done, but it’s great to see Telstra.com finally taking steps forward, becoming more powerful, easier to use and a more central part of Telstra’s business…

  4. Dave (Telstra) says:

    I love it. When do we do the rest?
    :)

  5. Carolyn says:

    I am not overly impressed with Big-pond – having been a customer for 7 years – and more than a few head aches over those years – I have tried over the past 4 weeks to try to find out from SOMEONE – ANYBODY who can speak English competently – when my contract for my Big-pond expires please.
    When I get a reply to this email I will give you the details of my account.Regards
    Carolyn McNamara

    • Brendan - [Your Community Manager] says:

      Hi Carolyn, I’ve emaied you today requesting your details so I can get you some help. Brendan

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