to video gaming operating under the BigPond brand that was managed by Mammoth Media and based on the east coast of Australia. The site provided news, downloads and servers primarily for the PC, and Mac, though it later branched out to include console sites. GameArena provided an online game shop GameNow, which sported various benefits to Telstra customers. Usage of the GameArena file library, gaming servers and booking service were freely available to anyone, but provided specific advantages to Telstra customers such as preference in downloads and unmetered usage, as well as various bonuses in competitions. In 2005, GameArena went through a new shift with the merging of GameNow and Gameshop into itself. The name became simply BigPond GameArena. GameArena once operated over 100 gaming servers, which were monitored by a volunteer force of administrators, known as GameOps. GameCreate was a service offered free of charge where users may book a server for a specific game for a 2-hour period of time. This server was private and could be used for either ladder training or social events. GameArena servers and its website closed on 20 October 2014. The Pond in Second Life Telstra BigPond owned and operated a number of virtual islands in the online game Second Life for approximately three years. BigPond closed its Second Life presence in December 2009. Facebook In 2011, Telstra launched "Blurtl", a Facebook application that allows the user to leave audio messages on their Facebook walls. Payphones In 2021, Telstra made its pay phones free so that they can be used in emergencies for when mobile phones are out of service due fire, flood, storms, flat batteries, etc. declining use would have meant that the cost of collection exceeded the revenue anyhow for the benefit of people without a mobile phone Controversies On 20 March 2019, Telstra denied access to millions of Australians to the websites 4chan, 8chan, Zero Hedge, and Liveleak as a reaction to the Christchurch mosque shootings. In May 2021, the Federal Court of Australia ordered the company to pay a $50 million fine for mistreating their Indigenous customers. Mobile networks The following is a list of known active mobile networks used by Telstra: February 2011: Ericsson wins the LTE contract with Telstra. The LTE network is being deployed in capital city CBDs and select regional centres throughout 2011. It will operate at 1800 MHz and integrate with a HSPA+ service