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Telecommunications PowerTel launches ADSL2+
Telecommunications PowerTel launches ADSL2+ | PowerTel launches ADSL2+ |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 31 October 2006 | |
  
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The service is being provided from DSLAMs owned by Powertel and iiNet in a total of 290 exchanges in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra and follows PowerTel taking a strategic 14.9 percent stake in iiNet earlier this year. Broad claimed that “PowerTel is now the second largest access network in Australia, effectively giving us complete coverage in all major metropolitan capital cities around the country." PowerTel sales director Nick Saphin said that between them the two companies expected to install about another 20 DSLAMs in these cities by early in 2007. iiNet has already launched its ADSL2+ service direct to end customers. Powertel will sell exclusively through its resellers of which there are close to 200. And according to Saphin, interest has been high. Broad, said the new service was "attractively priced to appeal to ISPs looking to meet demand for higher bandwidths." Saphin declined to comment on whether PowerTel's market entry was likely to see retail prices below those currently offered by iiNet. When PowerTel made its investment in iiNet, Broad said that the alliance would accelerate the company's access network roll-out by two years with minimum capital outflow and eliminate network duplication. PowerTel had earlier flagged its intention to have DSLAMs in about 150 Telstra exchanges by year end. In an investor presentation in March, iiNet said it had DSLAMs in 210 exchanges supporting 85,000 customers with 120,000 ports deployed and was planning to spend a further $15 million, to be funded by debt, installing DSLAMs in a further 150 exchanges. However it subsequently experienced serious financial problems.{moscomment} |
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