Telecom Lead Asia: NBN Co Ltd has inked a wholesale
broadband deal with NEC Australia.
The agreement enables NBN Co to expand its high-speed
wholesale broadband service portfolio across Australia.
NEC Australia expects to offer customers and partners
higher bandwidth, high-speed broadband services via the NBN by mid-2012.
“A lengthy consultation process was taken to ensure
that the agreement signed with NBN provided the best value and service to
customers, to ensure we can deliver competitive wholesale broadband services
throughout Australia,” said Alan Hyde, NEC Australia’s managing director.
The agreement enables NEC Australia to invest in existing
DSLAM-based wholesale broadband and third party networks, which covers 92
percent of the Australian population.
NEC Australia’s Nextep will provide wholesale aggregation
services on the NBN, offering wholesale internet, data and voice services to
new and existing customers once the rollout is commercially established.
NEC Australia will provide retail service providers,
system integrators and cloud providers with a turnkey solution required to tap
into the NBN. Such solutions will provide an alternative for small ISP, telco
or IT businesses to purchase such wholesale services.
Combining NEC Australia’s cloud telephony and cloud
contact centre solutions with NBN connectivity means that NEC Nextep can
provide wholesalers with an end to end solution for voice and data service.
For over 10 years, NEC has been providing Australian
businesses and Government agencies with a range of reliable, high-speed
broadband solutions and services.
NEC Australia provides advice to the government under the
Federal Whole of Government Telecommunications Panel on telecommunications
services, such as network integration and management, PABX management, voice
and video communication, carriage service contracts and end users device
management.
This Panel helps Australian Government agencies procure
services to supplement their internal capabilities and achieve savings through
the procurement process and better utilisation of aggregated buying power.
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