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On 2008-04-02, it was announced that the funding agreement had been cancelled. [9] The minister cited OPEL's failure to meet the terms of the contract, [10] specifically that analysis of OPEL's detailed maps revealed that it would reach only 72% of under-served premises, a claim refuted by the OPEL joint venture partners, who nevertheless stated that the project would not proceed.
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.
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned.
Whirlpool began as a community resource for users of Telstra's BigPond cable Internet service, the name Whirlpool being a parody of BigPond. [3] However, it soon expanded to cover Optus' Optus@Home (now known as OptusNet) cable internet service, ADSL-based services, and other forms of broadband ISPs in Australia, as they became available.
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 .
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.
In September 2014, Optus launched LTE Carrier Aggregation in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. Optus markets LTE Carrier Aggregation as "4G Plus". Optus combines two 20 MHz channels of 2.3 GHz spectrum. [6] In Brisbane, Optus has up to 4CA band combinations using Band 1, 3, 7, 28 and the total bandwidth is 55 MHz.
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.