As part of the Australian Government's commitment to deliver a National Broadband Network that will provide superfast broadband to Australian homes and workplaces, it is investing up to $250 million to immediately address backbone blackspots throughout regional Australia.  This program is currently rolling out across regional Australia.  NEC via its wholesale division Nextep offers wholesale broadband access services (‘Nextep Services’) on this infrastructure.

 

 

In providing  Nextep Services as part of the Regional Backbone Blackspots Program, NEC Nextep (http://www.nec.com.au/Solutions-Services/nextep.html) is required to develop an approach that ensures the Nextep Services are offered to the market on open and equivalent terms and conditions.  That approach is contained in NEC Australia’s Equivalence Undertaking to the Department of Broadband Communications  and the Digital Economy.