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Oct 12, 2026
Michael ThompsonHOST
Uh, its, its share price is under a bit of pressure, as are other tel- Telstra's not alone here.
Michael ThompsonHOST
Uh, other telcos, TPG, Telecom, Spark New Zealand, Superloop, all on the back of reports that Elon Musk's SpaceX is close to obtaining wireless radio frequency spectrum that would allow the company to effectively become a mobile carrier.
Michael ThompsonHOST
With those new airwaves, SpaceX could send cellular service from its Starlink satellites straight into buildings.
Sean AylmerHOST
buildings.Yeah.
Michael ThompsonHOST
Its price, share price is under a bit of pressure, but it's not alone.
Michael ThompsonHOST
Other telcos, TPG Telecom, Spark New Zealand, Superloop, all under pressure on the back of reports that Elon Musk's SpaceX is getting close to obtaining wireless radio frequency spectrum that would allow the company to effectively become a mobile carrier.
Michael ThompsonHOST
With those new airwaves, SpaceX can send cellular service from its Starlink satellites straight into buildings.
Sean AylmerHOST
Yes.
speaker_2HOST
Telco companies fall as SpaceX pushes into mobile.
speaker_2HOST
Telstra, TPG, Spark New Zealand, and Superloop all saw declines yesterday after reports Elon Musk's SpaceX is closing in on the technological progress needed that would turn it into a major mobile carrier.
speaker_2HOST
The deal would let SpaceX beam phone service indoors from its 11,000 satellite Starlink network, combining satellite and ground coverage.
speaker_2HOST
US telcos were hit harder, with AT&T and Verizon down about 11% and T-Mobile 12%.
Steve DaghlianHOST
The dividend dollars keep rolling in.
Steve DaghlianHOST
We've got Origin, QBE, Spark New Zealand, CSL, Evolution and A2 Milk, amongst others, paying dividends today.
Steve DaghlianHOST
But over the week, we've had over $12.5 billion distributed to shareholders.
Steve DaghlianHOST
A lot of that came from CBA, about $4.5 billion, and others like Fortescue Metals, which paid out roughly $1.5 billion to shareholders as well.
Gillian BowenHOST
Let's have a look at what's on the watch list.
Gillian BowenHOST
In Australia, companies making dividend payments today include Origin Energy, QBE, CSL, SparkNZ, Evolution Mining and A2 Milk Company.
Gillian BowenHOST
Also, NRW Holdings is trading ex-dividend.
Gillian BowenHOST
In the US, non-farm payrolls for September are released.
Laura BesaratiHOST
We have Accenture and Nike out with some earnings updates.
Laura BesaratiHOST
And then locally tomorrow, not too much in the way of economic news, but we do have NRW Holdings trading ex-dividend and plenty more dividend payments from the likes of Origin Energy, QBE, CSL, Spark New Zealand, Evolution Mining, A2 Milk and plenty more.
Laura BesaratiHOST
I think that wraps it up for today.
Laura BesaratiHOST
Thank you so much for joining us and we'll be back here tomorrow.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
And that's the country that went furthest structurally, isn't it? It's the cleanest case of structural separation.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
In 2011, Telecom New Zealand was split into Chorus, which is wholesale, only infrastructure, and Spark, which is retail.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Chorus won 69% of the rollout.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
By 2022, the network covered 87% of the population, 89 retail providers were selling services over it, and uptake had gone from 22% in 2014 to 33% in 2017 to about 70% in 2022.
Paul SpainHOST
What was that journey in terms of the organisations that you worked with during that period?
Stephen PhillipsGUEST
Yeah, so it was started off with Telecom New Zealand, then joined a company called Netway Communications.
Stephen PhillipsGUEST
Netway ended up becoming part of the Spark group.
Stephen PhillipsGUEST
So it was all of the advanced sort of networking communications side of that.