New York, NY - January 18, 2005 - Telstra Incorporated (NYSE: TLS), a leading global provider of advanced communications services to multinational corporations, announced today its new Service Provider Solutions offerings. Telstra's Service Provider Solutions offer customizable data communications services to carriers, service providers (SPs), resellers and system integrators (SIs) in the US market.

"Telstra's unique offering provides customizable global data solutions for service providers in the US," said Arthur Weissman, Director, Channel Development, Telstra Incorporated. "The key benefit for service providers is the ability to use our network on a 'pay as you grow' basis. This minimizes capital risk and operational costs by eliminating the need to build out a network. Another value of the Telstra Service Provider offering is that many of the Services are provided by REACH, the top IP backbone operator in Asia."

Service providers can begin selling services and realizing revenues and profits immediately on their global data services. Telstra will provide customized service level agreements (SLAs) for these services and global technical support, 24x7, with in-country support at major destinations in the Asia Pacific region. REACH has been ranked the top IP backbone operator, in terms of Intra-Asia connectivity, by Gartner Inc. for the fourth year in a row now in Gartner's "Asia-Pacific IP Backbone Opportunities 2004" report.

"This offering leverages Telstra's technologically advanced, diversely routed global IP backbone network, our extensive internetworking expertise, and Telstra's 50 year track record of providing innovative solutions to 200 of the world's top 500 companies in the Asia Pacific region and around the world," said Dan Kerth, President and COO, Telstra Incorporated. "We are excited about this announcement, as we are now formalizing an offering that we have already had success with over the past few years."