Optus Television

Optus Television is the cable television division of Australian telecommunications company Optus.

History

Its immediate predecessor was Optus Vision, a joint venture between, Optus and Continental Cablevision with small shareholdings by media companies Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and Seven Network. The Optus Vision joint venture was founded to handle residential cable television and local telephony, while its parent concentrated on corporate, long-distance, satellite and interstate communications. Optus Vision used a hybrid fibre coaxial cable network to connect homes to its network. Optus Vision added broadband cable internet access to its network.

Optus Vision used the Optus telecommunications licence as authority to build a cable network. The Optus Vision network was rolled out in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

The major competitor to Optus Vision was Foxtel, a 50/50 joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. These competed heavily in the metropolitan areas.