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At February 2017, over 50 Retail Service Providers offered services, with three (Telstra, Optus and TPG) sharing 83% of the market. [ 133 ] [ 134 ] Fibre and fixed wireless plans start from $29.90 per month for the lowest tier of 12/1 megabit per second download/upload speeds [ 135 ] and the highest speed tier of 1000/400 for $330 per month.
iiNet was founded in 1993 by Michael Malone and Michael O'Reilly, who started the business in a suburban garage in Perth as iiNet Technologies. It began as one of the first Australian ISPs to offer TCP/IP Internet access [citation needed], as opposed to the store-and-forward techniques (such as MHSnet) that were then in use at other ISPs.
The 2023 Optus outage was an unplanned outage of all Optus internet, cellular and fixed-line services in Australia first detected on 8 November 2023 at 04:05 AEDT. [2] The outage caused disruption across government and corporate sectors including hospitals, banks, train services, EFTPOS payment systems, and calls to emergency services .
FTTN requires premises to have a compatible VDSL2 modem. Each UNI-D port can be activated by retail service providers for different NBN services. The NTD cannot be used as a Layer 3 router for in-premises networking. [4] Most devices used in NBN are produced by Alcatel-Lucent, currently a division of Nokia Corporation.
Internode Pty Ltd was an Australian Internet service provider (ISP) that provided NBN broadband services, business-class broadband access, web hosting, co-location, Voice over IP, and a variety of related services.
In early 1997, AARNet2 went into service, a network that used ATM links and Internet services under a contract with Cable & Wireless Optus (CWO), now Optus. AARNet became a separate company from the AVCC in 1999. In 2001 AARNet deployed its own international capacity by acquiring 310 Mbit/s of capacity from Sydney via Hawaii to Seattle.
Optus Mobile customers reported that their phones showed 'SOS' on the signal indicator, which is a sign the regular network is down, but mobile phones still have access to alternate networks in the event of an emergency call by using a so-called camping mechanism; however, Optus landlines were unable to make emergency triple-zero calls.
In February 2021, Aussie signed a deal with Optus Wholesale to use their 4G and 5G mobile networks, with their previous partnership with Telstra only allowing access to their 3G and 4G networks. [19] In March 2022, Aussie Broadband acquired Brisbane-based IT company Over the Wire for $344 million.