Australia's Telstra: Jan trade has been pretty strong

MELBOURNE Feb 9 (Reuters) - Telstra Corp Ltd , Australia's largest phone company, said on Thursday that trading had been fairly strong in January and it was confident about the second half.

Telstra earlier posted a net profit of A$1.48 billion ($1.60 billion) in the six months to Dec 31 and maintained its full-year guidance. It maintained 2012 guidance for low single-digit growth.

"We are tracking well toward these outcomes," said Chief Executive David Thodey.

(Reporting by Miranda Maxwell; Editing by Richard Pullin)