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TRANSACT
TransACT is an Australian telecommunications company based in Canberra which provides broadband internet access, fixed and mobile telephony, and cable television services in Canberra and a subset of these services in Queanbeyan and throughout South-east NSW. The company is part-owned by ActewAGL (the main energy and water utility company in the Australian Capital Territory) and since February 2004 TransACT has contracted many of their administrative and marketing functions to ActewAGL.
The company built and operates a fibre-optic cable network to the street corner accessible to more than 50 per cent of Canberra's households and businesses (passing over 90,000 premises). Cable television, broadband and phone services are then delivered from street corner to premises using VDSL-based technologies.
TransACT supplements this with a cable-to-the-exchange network in areas of Canberra and Queanbeyan where laying fibre-optic cable is not feasible or cost-effective. This network then uses Telstra's copper phone network to deliver broadband and phone services.
Unlike other Australian broadband providers, TransACT operates an open network with eight ISPs providing broadband ISP services across this. One of these, Grapevine, is jointly owned by TransACT and it's parent ActewAGL.
TransACT's TransTALK phone service provides free phone calls between TransACT subscribers using TransACT's network. The TransSELECT service is a long distance call only service offered outside of TransACT's network in areas of south-east NSW where TransACT cannot yet provide local calls.
The TransMOBILE service provides a mobile telephony solution using the Vodafone network. TransTV offers Video on Demand from two separate services sourced from VOD and ANYTIME. Of the other Australian subscription television providers, Austar and Foxtel only supply Near Video on Demand (NVOD) services.
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