SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications (asx: SGT). The company primarily trades under the Optus brand, while maintaining several wholly owned subsidiary brands, such as Virgin Mobile Australia and Boost Mobile in the mobile telephony market, Uecomm in the network services market and Alphawest in the ICT services sector.
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To provide services, Optus owns and operates its own network infrastructure, as well as using the services of other network service providers, most notably Telstra Wholesale. It provides services both directly to end users and also acts as a wholesaler to other service providers. Through its OptusNet brand, it provides broadband, wireless and dial-up internet services.
The company was originally known as Aussat Pty Limited prior to privatisation, when it became Optus Communications Pty Limited. It was later renamed to Cable & Wireless Optus Pty Limited before changing again to its present name.
Overview
Optus building in Adelaide, Australia. Optus building in Melbourne Former Optus HQ, North Sydney Key Optus products and services include:
- Fixed Telephony
- Residential and Commercial POTS for local and long distance telephony
- Commercial VoIP and VoDSL
- Intelligent Network applications, such as free call, 1300 and Interactive voice response services
- Mobile Telephony
- GSM/GPRS network in all states
- 3G/HSPA network currently in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.
- Satellite Telephony covering all of Australia.
- Internet Access
- Residential Dial-Up Internet in All States
- Residential Broadband Internet (via cable and DSL) in all states (except Tasmania and the Northern Territory).
- Satellite Internet
- Commercial and Wholesale internet access
- Secure Gateway services for Federal Government departments
- Cable Television
- Optus Television service provided in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane, including Foxtel Digital
- Leased Lines
- Data Transmission
Retail services are sold to customers via phone, internet or through retail outlets, especially franchise chains such as Optus World, Network Communications, Strathfield, Telechoice, and Allphones.
Subsidiaries
A number of notable wholly owned subsidiaries operate in Australia as part of the SingTel Optus group. These are:
- Information Technology & Network Services
- Alphawest
- Uecomm
- Mobile Telephony
- SIMplus
- Virgin Mobile Australia
Optus also sells mobile services under the brand name Boost Mobile.
