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COLLIE RIVER VALLEY Published by LOCALS for LOCALS
Telstra taps Collie EDITION No. 134
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Thursday, May 25, 2023
$1.6b. project to deliver ‘ultrafast connectivity’
DRASTIC DROP
Daily walker Wendy Hoskins was surprised to find the Collie River’s water level dropped markedly this week. The drop occurred after the opening of the Venn Street river stop. Inset: part of the Collie River at Soldiers’ Park. - Story on page 7.
AN INTERCITY high-speed, dual-fibre route from Perth to Collie will form a key component of a Telstra project designed to deliver world-leading national connectivity over the next three decades. The state-of-the-art dual-fibre route is expected to reach Collie by November. Former Collie resident and Telstra’s chief executive officer (CEO) of infrastructure business, InfraCo, Brendon Riley, briefed the Bulletin last weekend before meeting Premier Mark McGowan with Telstra CEO Vicki Brady on Monday. The Collie route is one of two WA projects and one of the first five to be rolled out by Telstra in its biggest infrastructure project in the last 20 years. There will be 11 routes in all, adding 20,000 kilometres to the national fibre network. “The ambition is to improve the size, reach and bandwidth of our already extensive optical fibre network,” Mr Riley said. “There’s more demand than ever for fast and capable networks to shuttle around huge amounts of data as the world digitises at an astronomical pace. “The new fibre paths will boost capacity, speed and meet the needs of a burgeoning digital nation, and this project will deliver tomorrow’s connectivity today.” Mr Riley said the ultra-high capacity, low-latency, fibre will enable transmission rates of 650Gbps, over six times today’s common rate of 100Gbps. Continued on page 2.
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