Announcements
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Smarter, greener, together
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. Find out how telecommunications can help Australia tackle climate change.
Want to find out more?
- Video conferencing
- How to make a video call using Next G
- Recycling your mobile phone
- Telstra commissioned report Towards a High- Bandwidth Low-Carbon Future
- Telstra's other environmental initiatives
- Using ICT as a driver of your Sustainability Strategy
- Green Telecom is also published as a monthly online newsletter and information platform for those interested in how telecoms is tackling the challenges of climate change. It is produced by CommsDay.
Research
Recent studies into the effectiveness of telecommunications to reduce carbon emissions.
Online Billing Study
December 2008
This study tests the assumption that providing customer bills online produces fewer carbon emissions, and has a lower environmental impact than printing and posting paper bills. Commissioned by Telstra, the study was conducted by leading environmental consultants URS Australia, who used Life Cycle Assessment Analysis to find out under what circumstances this assumption comes good.
- Telstra Online Billing Study: Summary (PDF 520 KB)
- Telstra Online Billing Study: Full report (PDF 840 KB)
September 2008
A Telstra commissioned study to quantify the environmental benefits of teleworking. The study, a Life Cycle Assessment Analysis, conducted by leading environmental consultants URS Australia, compares the environmental impacts of those teleworking from home to those of office-based workers.
- Telstra Teleworking Study: Summary (PDF 548 KB)
- Telstra Teleworking Study: Full report (PDF 986 KB)
