12 Facts About TransACT

TransACT is the trading name of TransACT Capital Communications, an Australian telecommunications company based in Canberra which provides broadband internet access, fixed telephony, cable television services, and mobile phone services in Canberra and a subset of these services in Queanbeyan, throughout South-east New South Wales and in Victoria.

In November 2011, TransACT was acquired by iiNet Limited, which in 2015 itself became a subsidiary of TPG.

TransACT was launched in 1996 by a small team comprising Robin Eckermann, Joe Ceccato, Robert Clarke and Jane Taylor, working under the guidance of ACTEW Executive Neville Smith.

TransACT adopted an Open Access Network business model, separating the wholesale and retail businesses.

TransACT operates in collaboration with ten ISPs, comprising a mix of large national organisations and smaller local operations.

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Coincidentally, TransACT became the first telco in Australia to implement this particular high-speed broadband technology much superior to ADSL, which was prominent throughout the country at that time.

TransACT remains as the only telco to support VDSL and the products are still actively sold with network reach-ability to over 55,000 homes in the ACT.

Phase 2 rollout involved TransACT placing its own DSLAM equipment within Telstra exchanges and utilising their own fibre-optic backhaul to their main data centre in Dickson, ACT.

In 2009, TransACT commenced a greenfield rollout and upgrade of existing VDSL access network to VDSL2, the most advanced and fastest digital subscriber line broadband technology commercially available, commencing with a number of medium- to high-density developments in Canberra's more established suburbs.

TransACT first sponsored the Capitals in 2000, when the new company was looking for a community partner.

At the time TransACT had about 40,000 customers throughout the ACT, Queanbeyan and regional Victoria, across the residential, business and government sectors, and had "total recurring annual revenue" of about $80 million and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of $17 million.

TransACT defines a virtual channel order that groups channels by their content.