CommsDay: QCN SuperGrid Announcement
Queensland injects $250m into QCN to roll out FTTP, mobile backhaul in regions The Queensland government will invest $250 million in publicly owned fibre operator QCN to support an expansion of the telco’s network. That will include delivering FTTP connections in some regional communities, with the initiative linked to the state’s ‘Super Grid’ power infrastructure […]
QCN Launches its Infrastructure Partnership Program at Commsday Wholesale Forum in Sydney
Monday, 7 November 2022, Brisbane, Queensland – QCN’s CEO, Derek Merdith, launched QCN’s brand new Infrastructure Partner Program at the CommsDay Wholesale Forum in Sydney. QCN’s core strategy has been to leverage government-owned telecommunications assets. Since its inception, QCN has grown into a carrier agnostic wholesaler of telecommunications infrastructure with over 13,000 km of fibre […]
QCN Expands Coverage To More Than 20,000 Towers and Co-Location Facilities Across Queensland.
Monday, 5th September 2022, Brisbane, Queensland – QCN will undertake a major expansion of its existing network coverage and continue breaking down the digital divide thanks to a new agreement with Powerlink Queensland. The new agreement sees QCN take over management of Powerlink’s telecommunications tower and co-location services, significantly extending QCN’s network coverage well beyond […]
QCN Improves Solutions for the Mackay Region
QCN gets the Green Light to Deliver Improved Services to the Mackay Regional Council Area Friday, 3 June 2022, Brisbane, Queensland – QCN reaffirmed its commitment to providing fast, effective telecommunications to regional Queensland, confirming that it has been awarded Australian Government funding under Round 2 of the Regional Connectivity Program for solutions in the […]
Connecting Queensland To The World Via The Cable Landing Station
Queensland, Australia, 28 July 2021 – QCN Fibre announced today that it has ‘lit’ up 35 Terabytes per second of diverse telecommunications capacity from Brisbane to the Japan-Guam-Australia South Cable System (JGA South Submarine Cable) landing station at Maroochydore on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. JGA South is a consortium fibre optic cable that includes AARNet (Australia’s Academic and […]
edgeQnect – QCN Launches Brand New Service to Drive Growth in Regional Queensland
Brisbane, Australia, 10 June 2021 – QCN today launches a brand-new service, QCN edgeQnect providing high speed, point to point connectivity, protected over the QCN network with optional diverse hand off and fully redundant services including 10 and 100 Gbps options. “Edge data centres are an emerging industry sector and to date, high capacity backhaul […]
QCN Fibre continues to drive competition in Queensland – connecting to all 22 NBN PoIs with Ciena
QCN continues to build coverage, capacity, and competition in Queensland. The organisation announced today that it can provide backhaul to all Queensland nbnTM Points of Interface (PoI). QCN’s initial work program involved connecting its existing fibre network to six regional nbnTM PoIs in Toowoomba, Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville, and Cairns. “Our launch strategy was to […]
Regions to connect to transpacific submarine internet cable
Some great news for Queensland’s regional businesses struggling to get fast and reliable internet access to overseas markets. Thanks to a major Queensland Government initiative, regional businesses are set to get high-speed internet access to Asia and the United States. Innovation Minister Kate Jones recently announced QCN Fibre will be to connecting up to the […]