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Anthony Goonan...

  • Director
  • Director, Network & Commercial Planning
  • Mr Anthony Goonan is responsible for Telstra’s long term network technology roadmap and associated investment plan.

    Anthony is a graduate of Sydney University with a Bachelor of Science in Pure Mathematics and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with Honours. Anthony also possesses a Graduate Diploma in Education. He is a Governor on the Electrical and Information Engineering Foundation Board of Sydney University.

    Joining Telstra as a cadet engineer in 1982, Anthony has more than twenty-five experience deploying first, second, third and now fourth generation mobile networks. Anthony was also responsible for the design, deployment and operations of Telstra's mobile networks provided for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games – the first ever “mobile” Olympics. He has held senior management positions in mobile planning, product and device development & verification, infrastructure deployment and network operations.

    Anthony has been appointed in his current role encompassing long term planning activities associated with Telstra’s fixed and wireless connectivity since October 2010.

    Anthony is well acquainted with the industry, customer and community benefits and issues which come with fast evolving technology development and deployment.

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Telstra Device Testing Lab – A virtual tour

03 Dec 2012

Author: Anthony Goonan.
At Telstra we’re very proud of our Next G® mobile network. We know that at 2.3million sq km of coverage (and a further 1million sq km out to sea) it’s the largest mobile network in Australia. We also know that through a combination of our 3G and 4G technology we offer the fastest national mobile network and our customers have told us they view it as the most reliable.


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Further Update – Telstra ‘Smart Controls’ Cyber-Safety Tool

28 Jun 2012

Author: Anthony Goonan.
Yesterday, we stopped sale of a cyber-safety tool (named ‘Smart Controls’) in response to your concerns about the process that we had been employing in collecting data to support the launch of the product. To reassure our customers about what this process had involved, we published a post outlining the background to the development of this product. In response to this post, a number of our customers have contacted us with further, specific questions about this process.


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Telstra shows mobile phone coverage test process

29 Jul 2010

Author:Anthony Goonan.
Many people have asked us about how we test our mobile phones for coverage performance.
We’ve put together a video to help demystify how we arrive at our coverage performance.


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