TransACT
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| TransACT Capital Communications | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Canberra, Australia |
| Key people | John Mackay, CEO Jim Service, Chairman |
| Industry | Subscription Television Telecommunications |
| Products | TransTV Digital TransWEB TransMOBILE TransTALK TransSELECT |
| Website | www.transact.com.au |
TransACT Capital Communications is an Australian telecommunications company based in Canberra which provides broadband internet access, fixed and mobile telephony, and cable television services in Canberra and a subset of these services in Queanbeyan and throughout South-east NSW. The company is part-owned by ActewAGL (the main energy and water utility company in the Australian Capital Territory) and since February 2004 TransACT has contracted many of their administrative and marketing functions to ActewAGL.
The company has built a comprehensive fibre-optic network throughout the areas of Canberra and Queanbeyan where it owns above-ground electricity distribution network and provides services to customers in a variety of ways. Transact has been unable to provide fibre-optic network based services in areas where electricity distribution is through Telstra owned conduits.
The original Phase 1 rollout was based on a 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 availible to over 25,000 homes in the region. VDSL services include high speed data connection to an ISP, Video On Demand and a telephone service.
The newer Phase 2 rollout involves TransACT placing its own DSLAM equipment within Telstra exchanges and utilising their own fibre-optic backhaul to their main data centre in Dickson, ACT. Currently TransACT only offer ADSL1 via this service, but plans to have ADSL2+ implemented early 2007. The Phase 2 network is availible to anyone 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 is jointly owned by TransACT and ActewAGL.
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 1Gbps for businesses and ISPs anywhere on their network.
