Customers currently being serviced by Analogue Network Terminating Units (ANT-1), which uses ISDN technology to provide two analogue services over one copper pair, will in February be offered the opportunity to move to a full copper line, according to broadband forum site Whirlpool.
Telstra confirmed the offer, citing it as part of the AU$10 million plan to upgrade broadband services to regional and rural Australia announced in November last year. At the time the carrier said it was "working out new technically feasible and cost effective ways to assist more customers access alternative copper paths for ADSL and ISDN".
ANT-1 technology allows two full telephone services to be plugged in to the one copper wire, according to Telstra, and at least several thousand of those services are in existence.
"The technology was introduced well before broadband became an option," Telstra spokesperson Kerrina Lawrence told ZDNet Australia . "We're looking at ways of providing ANT-1 customers [with a full line] if we can find an alternate copper path to that solution."
"The technology was introduced well before broadband became an option," Telstra spokesperson Kerrina Lawrence told ZDNet Australia.
Does that mean that Telstra stopped deploying the technology when broadband became an option?