Primus Telecommunications Australia
Synopsis Primus Telecommunications Australia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Primus Telecommunications US. The company is a facilities-based total service provider offering local, domestic and international telephony, data, ADSL, ADSL2+, web hosting, VPNs and mobile services. Although the original focus was small to medium businesses, the Primus customer base includes residential customers and large businesses. Primus is undertaking a major upgrade of its network by installing DSLAMs across Telstra exchanges. During 2008, Primus will look at divesting non-core assets and outsourcing or centralising more of its back-office operations. Primus has begun upgrade of its fibre-optic network which will offer customers speeds as high as 10Gb/s.

 Table of Contents 1. Synopsis 2. Company information 2.1.1 Recent activities 2.2 Financial results 2.2.1 Financial results - 2009 2.3 Subscriber statistics 2.3.1 Historical statistics 2.4 Analysis 2.4.1 Primus leaves the worst behind 2.5 national broadband network 2.6 The network 2.6.1 National network 2.6.2 International network 2.6.3 Network DSLAM rollout 2.7 Products and services 2.7.1 Internet services 2.7.2 Telephony services 2.7.3 Data services 2.7.4 Mobile services 2.8 Company history 3. Related reports
Table 1 - Primus - revenue - 1996 - 2009
Table 2 - Primus - broadband DSL retail subscribers - 2003 - 2008
Table 3 - Primus -DSLAM broadband and voice bundled customers - 2005 - 2006
Exhibit 1 - Primus Telecommunications Australia at a glance
Exhibit 2 - The Primus network

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