iTWire Wednesday, 04 August 2021 10:31 Telstra payphones are now free for calls within Australia Featured
Telstra announced that all Australians can now make calls right across the country for free on Telstra’s network of more than 15,000 payphones.
Telstra advised that in the past year, about 11 million calls were made across Australia from Telstra payphones. This included more than 230,000 calls to critical services like ‘000’ and Lifeline, proving a crucial service for some of the country’s most vulnerable people and communities, especially those in regional and remote areas.
Telstra CEO, Andrew Penn said this decision meant everyone could now use payphones to make a free local or national call to a standard fixed line or a call to an Australian mobile, when they needed.