[AusNOG] No Optus mobile broadband in Darwin

[Tony]

Darwin is part of the backbone blackspots upgrade that is currently in progress.

There is a recent article about it here that has pretty maps of where the backhaul is going:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/174943,nextgen-digs-wa-and-nsw-regional-backhaul-links.aspx

If you click on the "photo gallery" links you can see that in addition to the government blackspots program NextGen (who have the contract) are also running their own link from Adelaide straight up the middle to Alice Spings so that they will have a redundant "ring" to at least Alice.

Not sure if/when this will translate into better/cheaper services in Darwin as you still have the local tail component which requires gear in exchanges.


regards,
Tony.


--- On Tue, 18/5/10, Daniel Hooper <dhooper at emerge.net.au> wrote:

From: Daniel Hooper <dhooper at emerge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] No Optus mobile broadband in Darwin
To: "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at ausnog.net>
Received: Tuesday, 18 May, 2010, 4:13 PM

>From what I've heard Telstra is currently the only carrier with backhaul (fibre) out of Darwin, so one would assume Optus is renting a slice of that from Telstra and Optus is running a super high contention ratio on that backhaul circuit themselves.

I'm still looking for more realistic priced services in Darwin myself, currently paying a 4 digit figure a month for 512k BSDL services from Telstra.

-Dan




      
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