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| 06 Feb 2008 - ADSL 2+ to more homes with Telstra |
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Telstra are excited today, announcing a huge roll out of Exchange upgrades - allowing access to high speed ADSL2+ services.
The announcement covers more than 900 telephone exchanges, covering 2.4 MILLION people right across Australia.
I think we'll find some drama and outcry coming from some other carriers, with Telstra's announcement coming after "the Government made clear it did not consider a compelling case had been made for regulating third-party access to the service - an assurance sought by Telstra for more than one year.
I guess that means BigPond is the only provider you will get ADSL2+ through in these new areas?
High-speed ADSL2+ broadband can provide network speeds of up to 20 Megabits per second (Mbps) depending on factors including the distance of a user from the exchange. ADSL2+ can provide speeds of 12 to 20 Mbps to users within 1.5 kilometres of an exchange, and approximately 8 Mbps to users three kilometres from an exchange. These speeds are up to 350 times faster than a standard 56kbps dial-up connection, and up to 78 times faster than a standard 256kbps ADSL connection.
Telstra will activate the following new ADSL2+ services:
- 370 telephone exchanges serving nearly 1.8 million premises will be upgraded within seven working days - within the first 48 hours exchanges will be upgraded serving nearly one million premises in locations such as Alice Springs (NT), Banora Point (NSW), Buderim (Qld), Deer Park (Vic), Kalgoorlie and Karratha (WA), Newtown (Tas) and Victor Harbor (SA); and within seven working days exchanges will be upgraded serving locations such as Ayr (Qld), Aldinga (SA), Mittagong (NSW), Lakes Entrance (Vic), Sandy Bay (Tas) and Madjimup (WA).
- 132 telephone exchanges serving 230,000 premises will be upgraded within three weeks - serving locations such as Loxton (SA), Tully (Qld), Narromine (NSW), Camperdown (Vic), Howard Springs (NT), Smithton (Tas) and Yanchep (WA).
- An additional 405 exchanges serving more than 330,000 premises will be upgraded within 200 days as Telstra completes additional work - serving locations such as Grovedale (Vic), Tumbarumba (NSW), Barcaldine (Qld), Ceduna (SA), Forrestdale (WA) and Cambridge (Tas).
The 900 additional exchanges that will provide ADSL2+ high-speed broadband serve:
- approximately 730,000 homes and businesses in NSW
- more than 660,000 homes and businesses in Victoria
- more than 570,000 homes and businesses in Queensland
- more than 170,000 homes and businesses in Western Australia
- nearly 80,000 homes and businesses in South Australia
- more than 120,000 homes and businesses in Tasmania
- more than 50,000 homes and businesses in the Northern Territory
- more than 2,000 homes and businesses in the Australian Capital Territory.
All well and good for those people, lets see what it means for competition in pricing and service for these services.
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