Senate calls for Telstra apology in survey-rigging affair

Telstra was held accountable for last month’s rigging of ZDNet Australia’s online survey at Senate Estimates this week, with the opposition calling for the nation’s incumbent carrier to apologise where it has so far failed to do so. And in other Telstra news, the telco has apologised for its treatment of a seriously ill customer in Melbourne, whose mother claims she was told the telco had an unofficial policy to cancel the contracts of seriously ill people, to avoid chasing money from the deceased estates