TransACT Capital Communications is an Australian telecommunications company based in Canberra which provides
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internet access, fixed telephony, cable television services, and, more recently, mobile phone services using the Vodafone Network, in
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and a subset of these services in Queanbeyan and throughout South-east
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. The company is part-owned by
ActewAGLActewAGL is Australia's first multi-utility to offer electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater services in a single organisation. It is the only joint-venture of its kind in Australia.ActewAGL provides utility services in the ACT and South-east NSW....
(the main energy and water utility company in the
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) and since February 2004 TransACT has contracted many of their administrative and marketing functions to ActewAGL.
The development of TransACT's vision and business plan commenced in 1996, led by a small team comprising Robin Eckermann (Chief Architect), Joe Ceccato, Robert Clarke and Jane Taylor, working under the guidance of ACTEW Executive Neville Smith.
TransACT Capital Communications is an Australian telecommunications company based in Canberra which provides
broadbandThe term broadband can have different meanings in different contexts. The term's meaning has undergone substantial shifts.-In telecommunication:...
internet access, fixed telephony, cable television services, and, more recently, mobile phone services using the Vodafone Network, in
CanberraCanberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth largest Australian city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory, south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
and a subset of these services in Queanbeyan and throughout South-east
New South WalesNew South Wales is Australia's most populous state, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria, south of Queensland and east of South Australia...
. The company is part-owned by
ActewAGLActewAGL is Australia's first multi-utility to offer electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater services in a single organisation. It is the only joint-venture of its kind in Australia.ActewAGL provides utility services in the ACT and South-east NSW....
(the main energy and water utility company in the
Australian Capital TerritoryThe Australian Capital Territory is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and its smallest self-governing internal territory. It is an inland enclave in New South Wales, and regularly referred to as Australia's 'Bush Capital'....
) and since February 2004 TransACT has contracted many of their administrative and marketing functions to ActewAGL.
The development of TransACT's vision and business plan commenced in 1996, led by a small team comprising Robin Eckermann (Chief Architect), Joe Ceccato, Robert Clarke and Jane Taylor, working under the guidance of ACTEW Executive Neville Smith. One of the distinguishing features of the business model was the adoption of an open network philosophy - many years before this approach attracted widespread interest around the world.
The company has built a fibre-optic network to parts of Canberra and Queanbeyan where it owns above-ground electricity distribution network and provides services to customers in a variety of ways.
The original Phase 1 rollout was based on an FTTC (fibre to the curb) design, with nodes being placed within 300 metres of properties. From these nodes TransACT offer VDSL services to residential and business consumers. The original Phase 1 VDSL network is available to over 25,000 homes in the region. VDSL services include high speed data connection to an ISP,
Video On DemandVideo on Demand or Audio Video on Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand....
and a telephone service.
The newer Phase 2 rollout involves TransACT placing its own DSLAM equipment within
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exchanges and utilising their own fibre-optic backhaul to their main data centre in Dickson, ACT. TransACT completed their ADSL 2/2+ rollout on 1 March, 2007. The Phase 2 network is available to anyone outside of Phase 1 with a Telstra phone line in Canberra and Queanbeyan, as long as they are within sufficient distance of their telephone exchange - as with any ADSL service.
TransACT operates an open network with eight companies providing ISP services. These include a mix of large national ISPs and smaller local operations. One of the ISPs (Grapevine) is jointly owned by TransACT and
ActewAGLActewAGL is Australia's first multi-utility to offer electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater services in a single organisation. It is the only joint-venture of its kind in Australia.ActewAGL provides utility services in the ACT and South-east NSW....
.
TransACT also offer a range of wholesale services to business and ISP customers, including colocation, IP transit and high speed point-to-point or point-to-multipoint data connections of up to 1 Gbit/s for businesses and ISPs anywhere on their network.
In 2007 it was announced that TransACT would take control of Victorian cable TV and telecommunications company
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from 1 January 2008.
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