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BigPond is Australia's largest Internet Service Provider.^{[citation needed]}

In Australia, BigPond is Telstra's brand name for consumer broadband ADSL, cable modem, dial up, satellite Internet services and Wireless Broadband (EV-DO and HSDPA) via the Telstra Internet national backbone. Frame Relay, SDH, ADSL/SDSL and permanent dialup services are sold to businesses by Telstra under the Telstra Business Broadband brand name.

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Bigpond also provides major content channels: BigPond Sport (with V8 Supercars, AFL.com.au, NRL.com.au and BigPond Racing), BigPond Movies, an online movie download and DVD-by-mail rental service, BigPond Games with GameArena and GameNow, BigPond Music, an online music store, from which customers can download music in an encrypted WMA format that uses DRM and BigPond TV an online viewer for BigPond's video content. In February 2006 BigPond commenced webcasting of Sydney Symphony performances, both live and 'on demand'. All files downloaded from any of Bigpond's network are unmetered for its ADSL and Cable customers.

Bigpond's broadband market share is 43%.^[1]

Telstra formerly offered a dialup internet service called "BigPond" in Cambodia, but some time in 2002 it was sold to a Cambodian ISP OnlineCom.^{[citation needed]}

In November 2002, Group Managing Director Justin Milne was hired, headhunted from his position of CEO of OzEmail, and a new team was put together to run BigPond. Subsequently, Milne's wife, Dr Anna Cicognani, was hired in 2004 and became BigPond's Operations Chief. The business was restructured and it became the most successful ISP in Australia, which has grown to have 45% of market share (June 2006), with a large amount of broadband customers on its ADSL and Cable products. BigPondLive, its OSS platform, is built entirely utilising FOSS such as Linux, Apache webserver, MySQL database, PHP and Perl and provides complete multi-vendor support for Network Management and performance graphing. It is still in active development today and could easily be made to fit any IP network.

A complete overhaul of its billing, provisioning and activation systems was initiated in 2003, with the majority of customers being migrated to the new platforms by June 2006. The billing architecture is based on the Infranet Portal software.^{[citation needed]}