[5] The information available on Austext pages included the latest in news, weather, racing, general interests and a television guide.

The weather pages include same day forecast capital city temperatures, same day forecast conditions and minimum/maximum temperatures as well as current temperature, humidity, dew point, wind speed, wind direction, sunrise and sunset times, and an outlook for the next five days for major centres across Australia which was all supplied by the Bureau of Meteorology.

The general interest pages included items such as lottery results, daily horoscopes and a joke of the day.

To access closed captions through Austext, viewers enter the navigation code number 801 on an analog television or by pressing the Text, CC, Subtitle or a designated coloured button (depending on make and model) on their digital set top box or television.

[6] This was due to claims from the network that the technology had come to the end of its useful service life and is not commercially viable to replace.

Seven also noted the wide availability of alternate sources of information now accessible to viewers such as Seven's own websites.