Internet service provider Internode today launched a new type of naked ADSL2+ service, using its own equipment at telephone exchanges to increase the range of its fast broadband.
Adelaide-based ISP Internode announced on Monday that it is ready to start trialling a broadband service that offers upstream speeds of 2.5Mbps, which more than doubles the previous maximum of 1Mbps.
Customers migrating to Optus' new ADSL
infrastructure will be limited to speeds
of 1.5Mbps, according to the company's
Web site, although much higher speeds had previously been advertised.
Business and wholesale telco PowerTel has launched ADSL2+ broadband services, with Perth-based Westnet to be one of the first retail Internet service providers to offer the product.
Forget about the usual New Year's resolutions; this year, soon-to-be-widespread ADSL2+ availability will give you far better things to do with your time. David Braue catches up with the market.
This roundup of thirteen of Australia's largest internet service providers looks into who's got naked DSL broadband already, who doesn't, and who wants to.