in brief ISP Internode has signed a wholesale deal with Telstra to get access to the larger telco's ADSL2+ broadband network from next month.
Simon Hackett
(Credit: Internode)
The deal will give Internode access about 900 telephone exchanges nationally equipped with Telstra ADSL2+ infrastructure. In addition, the deal will allow Internode to offer traditional voice line rental services using Telstra's PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) lines from April 2009.
Internode estimated that the new arrangement will double the coverage of its ADSL services. The company currently has access to infrastructure in 460 exchanges; 110 of its own and 350 through a wholesale agreement with Optus.
Internode managing director Simon Hackett said "We look forward to offering all our customers the option of a single Internode bill for their line rental, their phone calls and their broadband services from April 2009."
even as someone who is a fence sitter and hates telstra as much as terria etc, i find this announcement most ironic.
after years of bagging telstra (think basslink) and telling everyone how superior terria - of which internode is a member - is to telstra, on the very day terria were supposed to be going to *save us all*, this is the big announcement from internode - they are becoming a telstra wholesale customer?
sorry about the pregnant pause, just had to check the calendar to make doubly sure it wasn't April 1 and its not, so this is legit, rofl.
yes, they are currently a telstra wholeseale customer, but in the regulated areas, where prices are set by the accc. here they will be dealing with the devil one on one!
so after all the bs from terria, via internode, iinet and of course optus, terria apparently, technically didn't even bid - optus used their second expression of interest which they lodged months ago, to bid on their own behalf, with the rest of the terria members now just hanging around.
regardless, this news from internode is obviously good news for consumers, but along with all the recent desertions from terria and iinet saying the nbn is doomed, on bid day, this is certainly the icing on the cake for the *phantom* referred to as terria and something telstra will be savouring, with an arrogant grin.