What are the key differences between the broadband access technologies being offered by the major political parties and what impact will the choice of technology have on the potential for future upgrades? To answer this question, it useful to divide the main competing access technologies into two main classes: Shared and dedicated.
Telstra’s extensive network of copper could be reclaimed, recycled and returned to the bottom line.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued draft pricing principles and indicative prices for six fixed line wholesale services, which allow Telstra competitors to provide fixed voice and broadband services over Telstra’s copper network.
Next-generation DSL systems will enable bandwidths of more than 500M bits per second by bonding many copper lines and using advanced noise cancellation, Ericsson said on Monday.