Australian company to offer digital services for World Youth Day

Published: 2007-04-27

SYDNEY, Australia (CNS) -- Australia's largest telecommunications company, Telstra, announced it will provide phone and digital communications services to the 300,000 extra people expected in Sydney for World Youth Day 2008. Solomon Trujillo, an American businessman and Telstra Australia's chief operating officer, told a conference of Catholic officials in Melbourne in mid-April that his company had reached an agreement with World Youth Day coordinators to offer an array of "real-time" communications services to the event. Trujillo said the deal will enable organizers to "explore innovative ways to use technology to broadcast the event to young people around the world." Trujillo said, "We intend to make World Youth Day shine by using our world-leading next generation infrastructure." The coverage will include cell-phone messaging, Web casts and Web logs (blogs) "so that more young people around the world can access and share this very special event," said Trujillo.

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