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Telstra’s Super-fast DownloadsTelstras cable broadband customers in Melbourne and Sydney can now get 30 megabits per second download speeds after a major network upgrade. The upgrade to the DOCSIS 2.0 transmission technology on Telstras hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) network, which also carries the Foxtel pay TV signal, has been made across 1.85 million premises in the two cities. The company does not plan to extend the upgrade to its 950,000 HFC customers in Brisbane and Adelaide, who will remain at a download peak of 17Mbps. Telstra BigPond group managing director Justin Milne said the speed upgrade would particularly benefit networked houses, where more than one computer is run off a single broadband connection. "Bandwidth of the type that were offering now means that a household can run multiple online connections on multiple computers and everyone goes fast," he said at a launch in Melbourne this morning. The cheapest BigPond cable plans are limited to a maximum download speed of 8Mbps with 128 kilobits per second uploads, with the faster "extreme" plans previously capped at 17Mbps with 256Kbps uploads. Telstra has sent software upgrades directly to customers cable modems, meaning existing extreme customers only have to reboot their modems to get the 30Mbps download speed. The peak upload speed for these customers has also been increased, from 256Kbps to 1Mbps. All extreme plans cost $10 more per month than the 8Mbps plans. Telstra does not allow its rivals wholesale access to its HFC network. Optus also operates an HFC network which covers 2.5 million premises but only offers a peak download speed of 9.9Mbps. Mr Milne said he did not expect Optus would match Telstras HFC upgrade. "What theyll have to do if they do that is to make an investment, and we havent seen a great deal of investment from Optus recently," he said. "Theres nothing stopping them investing in this country in the way theyre actually investing in other Asian countries . . . but they chose not to invest in Australia because the government helps them." Mr Milne also said Telstra was not planning to expand its HFC footprint because of a stalemate with the government over its planned $4.1 billion fibre to the node (FTTN) broadband network, which incorporates Telstras copper-wire telephone network. "Im in the retail business and one of the maxims we use at BigPond is sell what youve got," he said. "This (upgrade) is really a retail-oriented thing. People love to read political game playing and great conspiracy theories in to everything that happens - especially with Telstra. This is just about getting out and selling what weve got." Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationDell breaks ’golden rule’...Gates Sees Next Windows Version ?Sometime? in Next Year... A Portable Scanner That Can Travel, but Keep Both Hands on the Wheel... Dibs on That: Antiques Without the Antiquing... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Telstra’s Super-fast Downloads |
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