Optus Mobile Phones

Optus Mobile Phones

Optus mobile phones provider, a wholly owned subsidiary Singapore Telecommunications, is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia.

The Optus mobile phones provider can trace its history to the AUSSAT Pty Ltd., which was founded in 1981. When AUSSAT was privatised, it was named Cable & Wireless Optus Pty Limited, and then the name was eventually changed to Optus. The first public offering of the Optus mobile phones provider when it was privatised was cheaper long distance rates compared with its competitors.

The Optus mobile phones provider owns and operates its own infrastructures and at the same time utilises the services of other network service providers. Optus mobile phones provider acts as a wholesaler to other service providers and, at the same time, directly provides services to end users.

Optus mobile phones provider offers products and services such as fixed telephony, mobile telephony, Internet access, cable television, leased lines and data transmission. Optus mobile phones provider offers mobile telephone technologies like GSM, GPRS, 3G and satellite networks. Except for 3G, all mobile telephone technologies offered by Optus mobile phones cover major cities of Australia. Optus mobile phones provider also carries mobile phone brands such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola, Samsung, and Blackberry.

Optus mobile phones have features like voicemail, MMS, video calling, SMS, SIM backup and 3G. Value-added features of Optus mobile phones are two exclusive answering services: the SurePage and the SureFax. The SurePage is a mobile paging system where an operator answers a call when the mobile owner is not available and transmits the messages to the owner in text form. The SureFax gives the mobile phone owner the option to send, receive and save faxes without a fax machine.