Telstra BigPond has announced a 30Mbit cable network upgrade toward the end of the year which will eventually be made available to 2.7 million Australian households. The upgrade could eventually witness broadband speeds of 50 – 100 Mbit/s be implemented as an alternative to a FTTN in metro areas.
Mr Trujillo indicated Telstra was working on alternatives to a fibre-to-the-node network in metropolitan areas, such as an upgrade to the Foxtel cable, which could eventually provide broadband speeds of between 50 and 100 megabits per second to 2.7 million homes.
Telstra is expected to ramp up the cable’s speeds – used to deliver pay TV and next-generation broadband technology – to 30 megabits per second by August, before launching the upgrade a month later.
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