Telstra to spend $210m on ADSL upgrade (The Age / AAP)

Telstra has allocated $210 million to upgrade their DSLAM network to the ADSL2+ standard. I find it a little odd that they’re spending so much money on this project when they don’t utilise their current ADSL equipment to anywhere near its maximum throughput. The ADSL1 specification allows for speeds of up to 8Mbps downstream, however Telstra cap speeds at 1.5Mbps. It will be interesting to see if they allow greater speeds under the new standard.