Telstra speaks to Google about rolling out fibre-to-the-home

Fledgling fibre monopoly NBN Co this afternoon said the delay in finalising its $11 billion arrangement with the nation’s largest telco Telstra could affect the timing of the delivery of services to the second wave of release sites as part of the national fibre rollout effort.

Market research firm Telsyte has revised downwards is forecasts for take-up of the NBN fibre network on the basis of expected delays in decommissioning of Telstra copper.

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The nation's largest telco Telstra yesterday began switching on the new fibre broadband services it has recently installed in the South Brisbane exchange area, as it continues its project to replace its copper network in the area.

The Government has released an information paper detailing how telephone customers who do not want to take up any NBN services will be transitioned from Telstra copper to the equivalent service on NBN Co fibre.

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Telstra has upgraded its Sydney-Melbourne optical fibre network to operate with 40Gbps per wavelength, doubling capacity and says it will upgrade other major inter-city routes over the coming year.

Telstra will shut down its phone network, as well as its HFC cable broadband service in an $11billion deal with the government's fibre-to-the-home NBN company.

In an historic vote, the Senate today effectively voted to structurally separate Australia's largest telco Telstra, paving the way for the rollout of the National Broadband Network. The decision moves the Government closer to buying Telstra's network and customers for $13.8 billion and rolling it into NBN Co, provided Telstra's shareholders approve the sale.

NBN Co has negotiated early access to Telstra’s infrastructure to fuel the rollout of its fibre network at the planned second release sites, ahead of the finalisation of what NBN Co chief Mike Quigley described this morning as the pair’s “hideously complex” permanent arrangement.

The controversial clause in Telstra's National Broadband Network agreement prohibiting the telco from promoting its wireless solutions as a direct alternative to the NBN's fibre continues to draw interest, despite protestations from Telstra chief executive David Thodey that the clause would only have a minor impact on his company's operations.