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September 27, 2005
Some strategic thoughts for Sol Trujillo
While Sol Trujillo is working on that strategic review for Telstra, he might like to have a look at British Telecom's latest nightmare: a competitor that is providing broadband connections that are are up to 24 times faster than other providers, at less than double the price.
At 24Mbps, subscribers will be able to stream two high definition TV channels through their computers simultaneously, while they browse the Web or make voice calls. Upload speeds will be up to 1.3Mbps - five times quicker than any other service on the market.
While it seems giddying, compared to the truly pathetic speeds that Big Pond has decided are all we're going to get, it's only a fraction of what's available in places like Korea and Japan.
So keep this in mind, Sol: If you're going to upgrade the network - and you're going to have to do it whether the Howard Government nitwits support you or not - you might as well aim high. Because if you don't, sooner or later, somebody else will eat your lunch.
Posted by cw at September 27, 2005 11:15 AM
Comments
It might have been more accurate to indicate that the speeds quoted are "up to" as the ISP indicates on their site, rather than guaranteed.
ADSL2+ is already available in Australia from a number of ISPs including Internode (Agile) and iiNet (Chime) via a Telstra LSS.
Posted by: billy at September 27, 2005 01:48 PM
I'm on ADSL2+ (with internode), and so are many people i know.
You seem to wrongly assume that ADSL2+ isnt availible in Australia.
And by the way - i live quite some distance away from my ADSL2+ enabled exchange - so i only get 5Mbps
Posted by: Anonymous at September 29, 2005 05:04 PM
Bleeding Edge? Assuming that it's not available? Scarcely a week goes by around here without checking the coverage maps to see if ADSL2 is available at our exchange. Unfortunately, it's going to be a little while yet.
The point we were trying to make was that while these roll-outs are tiny affairs, sooner or later, someone will get the funding that they need for a massive roll-out.
Posted by: cw at September 29, 2005 06:02 PM
I am fairly confident that iPrimus installs ADSL2+ DSLAM's whenever they put one in but I do not believe they offer full ADSL2+ options to their plans yet. They also supply you with a ADSL2+ Modem.
Also Internode are rolling out (Slowly) ADSL2+ and if you would like to sign-up on the resiter for the I am am keen for high spped access you can sign a request form at http://cgi.agile.com.au/demand/register.html
Posted by: Stephen at October 3, 2005 01:48 PM
How do you get Telstra or IINET "Support" to respond to tecnical questions about ADSL in an email.
Telstra response in an automated acknowledgement but nothing else. IINET just does not respond at all.
Posted by: Foxy at October 6, 2005 07:31 AM