MyRepublic began offering services in Singapore in 2011, and now that it is on targetto become the country’s fourth operator, it is planning to launch purely fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services in Australia.
David Thodey, outgoing chief executive at Australian giant Telstra, has named Tier-3 disrupters like MyRepublic as one of his biggest worries, over both national rivals TPG and Optus.
The start-up has already entered the markets of New Zealand and Indonesia, and now plans to offer a 100Mbps service to customers in Australia with services due to launch by mid-2016.
“We've kind of re-engineered the economics of telcos and this is what David Thodey was talking about,” Rodrigues said.
“We’re going to come in with an unlimited megabit per second offer at the $80-$90 per month range.”
Rodrigues also used expletive language to slam parts of the country’s $41 billion national broadband network roll-out.
“On FTTN we’ll market 100Mbps and when people come over we’ll say ‘sorry, thank your government that you’re on a **** network and the most you can get is 20-30Mbps, we will continue to lobby your government to turn it into a fibre-to-the-home one and as soon as you get there we’ll get you a free upgrade to fibre’,” Rodrigues told local media.
In March this year, Telstra submitted proposals to the Australian regulator for the migration of its local access networks to the NBN.