Internode gets Naked in Tasmania

National broadband provider launches broadbandservices in Tasmania, to fill in metropolitan broadband blackspots.

Internode's Extreme broadband services are delivered to customers from telephone exchanges equipped with Internode's own DSLAM equipment.

NakedExtreme services extend broadband reach from 4.1 km to as far as 7.5 km and increases potential broadband coverage area for an exchange from 52 square kilometres to more than 176 sq km. 

NakedExtreme delivers a broadband service over a phone line with no dial tone.

As well as offering low-cost, high-quality calls via the NodePhone VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service, NakedExtreme eliminates the need for a 'dial tone' service rental that typically costs about $30 per month. 

Although Internode launched NakedExtreme nationally in August last year, Tasmania was left out due to the lack of competitive backhaul services across Bass Strait.

This announcement follows Internode gaining access to the Basslink fibre-optic cable, which offers viably priced backhaul.

Jim Kellett, product manager, at Internode said the availability of NakedExtreme in Tasmania would expand during the next six months.

"We are installing our own equipment in an extra 10 telephone exchanges," he said.

"That expansion will make Internode's NakedExtreme and Extreme ADSL2+ services available to 90,000 Tasmanian premises, including over 12,000 businesses."