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Telecommunications While the world moves to multi play Australia yet to do triple play
Telecommunications While the world moves to multi play Australia yet to do triple play | While the world moves to multi play Australia yet to do triple play |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 12 October 2006 | |
  
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Other national incumbents such as KT, AT&T and PCCW are not far behind. However, in Australia, neither Telstra nor Optus have committed to offer triple play services, IDC says. IDC found that broadband developments in the past four years in France point towards a sequence, where competition spikes off innovation, and the advances in service offerings lead to upgrades in network infrastructure. "Australia is still in the early days of the 'competition' phase, and should Australia follow the footsteps of France, Australians will see innovative services from local telcos in the next two years," IDC says. According to Sophie Lo, IDC's analyst for consumer digital markets, in France, innovative services spurred by alternative ISPs, lead by Iliad, urged France Telecom to pursue its own home gateway strategy. "As both telcos are churning out innovative services, most of which are multimedia and entertainment oriented, there is an increasing need for more bandwidth, leading France Telecom to test fibre-to-the-home in mid 2006, and Iliad to announce the roll-out of a FTTH local loop.{moscomment} |
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