Telstra have flicked the switch enabling ADSL Broadband Internet to 211 Exchanges under the Government’s Broadband Guarantee program. More than 200 communities, many of them located in regional and remote Australia, will now have access to very fast Broadband Internet services. These new ADSL Broadband services will cover the remaining 1% of the population who until now, could only access the Internet through dial up services.  

After failing to snatch the $1 billion grant for the Broadband for the Bush Wireless project, Telstra bounced back and received around $98 million in funding for this latest initiative. It appears the pollies are excited about the breakthrough in relations between the Government and Telstra. This is slightly disappointing, as the real winners are the people in country Australia who can now get what the rest of have had for years.

Below is a list of Australian Communities that will soon have ADSL services via their local exchanges 

News of the expansion comes as a big surprise
considering the Government’s future intentions on implementing a
Fibre-to-the-Node network.  The potential new FTTN network
may supersede many Primus ADSL ports thus making them unnecessary.
 However, Primus Australia CEO ‘Mr Ravi Bhatia’ has suggested that the demand for high speed Broadband is extremely high and the roll-out will only strengthen Primus as one of Australia’s leading telecommunication operators.
 

“This deployment will increase our network reach by over 50%. This expansion of Primus infrastructure has been driven purely and simply by customer demand. Moreover, our infrastructure ownership allows us to guarantee quality and reliability to our customers”

“This investment is a vote of confidence in fair and balanced competition policy and regulatory environment in the Australian telecommunications market. Our new investment solidifies Primus’s position as one of the leading infrastructure based operators in Australia”

  
You can check out all the current Primus Broadband
Plans right here at Broadband Guide.

Regards,

The Broadband Guide Team