Optus migrates HFC users for $800m

Optus and NBN expect that the initial migration of clients onto the NBN fibre will kick off in 2014, with the program expected to take up to four years from that point to affect all of Optus' clients across its HFC footprint - currently extending through area of most of Australia's major capital cities. Until they are migrated, Optus will continue to provide clients with services over the HFC network.

Telstra's own $11 billion deal announced this morning will as well see it stop providing broadband services over its own HFC network. Nevertheless, unlike Optus, Telstra has not announced plans to decommission the infrastructure, as it will after all use it to provide pay TV services through its joint venture Foxtel.

In its statement, Optus said it would progressively decommission the parts of its network that did not provide ongoing support for mobile infrastructure and business clients. Nevertheless, like Telstra, it has agreed to solely use the NBN for fixed-line services in relevant areas.

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