Optus threatens to sue Telstra over Next G claims

Optus last month became the first mobile operator in Australia to offer femtocells as a full commercial product. Optus promoting them as solution for Optus mobile customers with poor coverage in their homes.

The Daily Telegraph has launched what appears to be an all-out attack on SingTel subsidiary Optus, claiming the telco's mobile coverage is the pits.

Optus is to spend $25m upgrading its mobile network in Tasmania, tripling to 100 the number of cell sites in the state , giving it coverage of 96 percent of the population and creating the first significant competition to Telstra.

Optus is to spend $25m upgrading its mobile network in Tasmania, tripling to 100 the number of cell sites in the state , giving it coverage of 96 percent of the population and creating the first significant competition to Telstra.

For several years now I have been asking Telstra to bring femtocells to Australia as they eliminate blackspots via existing wired broadband, as Optus put Telstra and David Thodey’s claims of putting the customer first to shame by saying ‘yes’ to an Australian femtocell trial.

Although Optus once had its own pay TV service called Optus Vision, Optus’ vision for a pay TV seemed to go blind once it was all subsumed into Foxtel, but now a report says Optus is preparing a Telstra-like T-Box of its own.

The nation’s number two telco Optus yesterday revealed it would invest $25 million in its 3G mobile network in Tasmania over the next two years, tripling the number of base stations in the state to over 100 and increasing the capacity of existing sites to boost signal.

Internet coverage of this year's Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras will be delivered by Optus.

After years of being hyped up as a next generation solution to mobile phone coverage problems, femtocell technology has finally hit the Australian market in the shape of a trial being kicked off this week by the nation’s number two telco Optus.