Opticomm

OptiComm Co Pty Ltd

Type	Private
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	Dec 2nd 2005
Headquarters	Melbourne, Australia
Key people	Paul Cross (CEO), Phil Smith, Geoff Aldridge, Stephen Davies
Services	Open Access, Wholesale network - Voice, Data, TV
Revenue	Refer to Hills Annual Report
Owner(s)	Hills Holdings (ASX:HIL) and Asoon (Private)
Employees	20 (2010)
Website	www.opticomm.net.au

OptiComm is the largest builder and operater of Fibre to the Premises networks in Australia. The company focuses on delivering FTTP solutions in Greenfield estates using the "Open Access, Wholesale Only" business model created by Stephen Davies (now the GM of Operations at OptiComm) - the same model that has now been adopted by the Australian Government for the National Broadband Network.

Currently Opticomm operates NBN Tasmania on behalf of NBNco and has a further 45 estates under contract which represents some 100,000 homes to be built over the next 10 years.

History

The company was formed in 2005 by Paul Cross and Phil Smith

In 2007, Hills Holdings purchased 50% of Opticomm.

In February 2009 Opticomm launched the first 100Mbps residential access service in Australia.^[1]

In Dec 2009 Opticomm was awarded a contract by NBN Co to operate on behalf of the NBN the stage 1 release of the National Broadband Network in Australia.^[2]

In June 2010 as operator of the stage 1 NBN Tasmania network (on behalf of NBNco), Opticomm connects to the first three customers to the National Broadband Network.^[3]

References

1. ^ Davies, Stephen (25 Feb 2009). "Internode and Opticomm launch 100Mbps". OZFTTH. http://ozftth.blogspot.com/2009/02/internode-and-opticomm-launches-100mbps.html. 
2. ^ Tung, Liam (14 Dec 2009). "Opticomm scores Tas NBN deal". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.com.au/opticomm-scores-tas-nbn-deal-339300035.htm. 
3. ^ Herrick, Chloe (02 Jul 2010). "Internode connects first NBN customer". Computerworld. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/351977/internode_connects_first_nbn_customer.