Queensland Regional Telco Survey 2025
QCN conducted a qualitative survey of key stakeholders across regional Queensland, with responses ranging from the Gulf Country in the north to the Western Downs in the south.
Access a free copy of the report collating open-ended feedback from End-Users and Community Stakeholders, and Infrastructure and Service Provider Professionals.
This is our mandate.
To break the digital divide in Queensland.
This is our goal.
To enable metro-grade services, at metro-prices, to all of Queensland.
Who is QCN?
QCN is a Queensland Government-owned Corporation, jointly owned by Powerlink and Energy Queensland. QCN’s mission is to improve regional digital connectivity through leveraging the spare telecommunications capacity of Queensland government-owned assets.
QCN is an infrastructure and connectivity provider, offering carrier-grade backhaul to major carriers, government, local councils, businesses, emergency services, Internet Service Providers, and telecommunications network providers.
QCN delivers increased data capacity, critical network diversity and cost-effective connectivity, enabling major carriers to connect regional Queenslanders to national and global networks. This approach has enhanced competition, supported new investment, and driven economic growth, ensuring customers have access to world-class digital connectivity, opportunities in the emerging digital economy and price equality with metro services.
Our Impact
Our Network
We are a wholesale telecommunications carrier offering Layer 0, Layer 1 and Layer 2 access to our vast fibre and tower network.
Our totally carrier-diverse and geographically-diverse core fibre network spans more than 13,000 kilometres stretching west from Brisbane to Toowoomba and beyond, and north through regional townships up to Cairns.
Our tower infrastructure exceeds 20,000 High Voltage and Telecommunications towers.
Our Services
Tower Backhaul
Co-location services connecting directly to your nbn™ network. Uses DWDM to maximise
speed, ensuring fast, easy, and secure network deployments.
Co-location
Tower space leasing designed to speed up the construction and flexible expansion of your regional wireless networks.
Backhaul to nbn™
Seamless connection to all 22 nbn™ Points of Interconnect (PoI) in Queensland, offering
highly competitive pricing on strong Ethernet and Wavelength plans.
DC Interconnect
High-speed, packet-optical connectivity linking multiple data centres, allowing you to quickly expand capability and connect directly to more customers.
Data Centre Interconnectivity
A high-capacity optical network interconnecting Queensland’s major data centres via a diverse, state- wide backbone ring. Built for critical uptime using non-traditional fibre paths for superior resilience.
DWDM
Secure, direct wave 100Gbps connections and 10Gbps e-Line services. DWDM combines
multiple data signals over a single fibre pair while maintaining complete data separation.
Ethernet Backhaul
Carrier-grade Ethernet (Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint) on a MEF 3.0 certified platform. Features a guaranteed 100% committed data rate with bandwidths from 10Mbps to 10Gbps.
Dark Fibre
High-performance, low-latency dark fibre offering complete network control and flexibility. Link sites across Queensland and connect to Asia and the USA via the JGA South International Cable.
REGIONAL QUEENSLAND PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
CopperString
Delivering ongoing digital connectivity to workforce camps and vital community
facilities to bring metro-grade services to the Northwest.
Queensland Emergency Services
Secured the state’s dispatch network with entirely separate, critically diverse fibre to ensure maximum reliability and uptime.
Regional Connectivity Program
Partnered with Channel Wireless to deliver a 25-fold speed increase to Central Highlands towns, empowering local businesses like CQ Sawmilling.
Richmond Upgrade
Upgraded local ISP Wi-Sky’s capacity from 300Mb to 10Gb, giving remote cattle stations unlimited internet to revolutionise distance education and staff retention.
Warwick Upgrade
Provided high-speed connectivity to John Dee meatworks, enabling a full digital transformation and seamless global customer interaction.
Goondiwindi Upgrade
Doubled backhaul speeds for Country Broadband Network (CBN), enabling them to upgrade existing customers at no extra charge and expand their network
