Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications carrier and a world-class fully integrated, full service provider across fixed, ADSL, HFC, satellite and digital wireless networks and platforms. With the release of "Weathernews" content on Telstra i-mode's network, Weathernews will also continue to provide weather content to Telstra Corporation's WAP portal.

With the launch of Telstra i-mode services, Weathernews is now able to capitalize on its formidable successes in the Japanese mobile market where over 1.3 million subscribers continue to choose "Weathernews" content as their preferred weather information provider. In combining both advanced meteorological skills and content making know how with i-mode handsets, Weathernews is now able to provide true subscriber driven content such as weather content via Telstra i-mode i-mail service which will enable direct linking from i-mail to content pages, uniform Java applications (DoJa) and FLASH applications, not to mention direct input from subscriber contribution pages.

"Weathernews" content will range from colorful 4 day forecasts for both major Australian and international locations, Australian weather radar and satellite images, "Sport" and "Airport" weather forecasts, and of course "Marine Weather" including coastal forecasts and wave model data at first. Over the next few months leading up to Christmas, Weathernews will also release new content and ways in which subscribers can truly mitigate the effects of weather on their daily lives.Weathernews will also include "My Weathernews" where subscribers can make their own weather page with their favorite location always displayed in the Top Menu.