Telstra hastens ADSL2+ (Australian IT / Andrew Colley)

From the article: “ Telstra has not announced a launch date for its high-speed DSL service, but The Australian understands that the carrier plans to make them available to its retail and wholesale customers across 400 exchanges in late September.

Telstra refused to confirm or deny the reports when contacted by The Australian.

“We’re on schedule to have it up and running in the second half of the year, but we haven’t publicly released a launch date,” Telstra spokesman Rod Bruem said.

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The Australian understands the carrier has taken a conservative approach with its ADSL2+ access plans, offering speeds of 3Mbps and 6Mbps.”

Personally I doubt Telstra will do very well in the market place with such low speed plans. The current ADSL1 spec is capable of speeds up to 8Mbps downstream which makes me wonder why Telstra would commit to such a large capital expenditure if they’re not going to offer higher speeds than their current infrastructure can deliver.