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 – 2008
      
  • 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