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Telstra uses various delivery methods for its internet products via BigPond (now Telstra Media [165]), including ADSL, Cable Internet, Dialup, Satellite, and Wireless Internet (through the Next G network)). At the end of the 2007 financial year, BigPond had over two million broadband subscribers. [166]
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.
In March 2007, the ALP announced a new policy, accepting the privatization of Telstra in order to fund a world class national broadband network. [72] [73] Due to Telstra's extensive use of pair-gain technology for connecting home landlines from 1994 to 2000, some homes have been excluded from ADSL and are limited to a dialup speed of 28.8 kbit ...
Telstra was progressively privatised (33.3% 1997, 16.6% 1999, 33.3% 2006, with 17% transferred to the Future Fund.) Numbers of licensed telecommunications carriers grew from: ~20 controlling facilities in Australia at 1998 (with several hundred entities providing services using those facilities to end users ); to 99 at 2002.
Further linear channels were added in April 2011 with the addition of 7 Telstra BigPond channels. In June 2011, Foxtel launched an over-the-top service on Telstra's IPTV set top box called Foxtel on T-Box carrying the same services as the Foxtel on Xbox service. [40] Also as of June 2011, Foxtel's subscribers numbered just over 1.65 million. [41]
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