The company's acting marketing team leader Fiona Tong told ZDNet Australia the company was preparing a statement on the matter, but declined to comment further.
Tong's confirmation comes as a support representative from the ISP alerted its customers to the impending rollout last Friday afternoon on the forums of broadband information site Whirlpool.
"TPG is pleased to announce our decision to implement our own DSLAM network," wrote the employee. "In a few weeks' time, we will announce the plan of DSLAM rollouts." DSLAM is the commonly used term for the DSL Access Multiplexer hardware used to provide ADSL access from Telstra's telephone exchanges.
"At the moment, all I can tell you is that TPG will be rolling out DSLAMs to provide ADSL2+ service," added the employee.
The ISP's pending move is just part of a wave of broadband infrastructure building going on around the nation, with the aim of providing higher speeds and profit margins than those offered by reselling Telstra's ADSL services.
Most of the larger broadband ISPs are involved, including Optus, iiNet, Internode, Primus, Adam Internet, and Amcom. Business-grade wholesaler NEC NEXTEP is also known to be slowly upgrading its existing network.
TPG is known to have at least 50,000 broadband customers, and a large number on dial-up.
