Optus
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| Subsidiary of Singtel | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1981 as AUSSAT |
| Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Key people
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| Products |
Fixed Telephony Mobile Telephony Internet Access Cable Television Leased Lines Data Transmission |
| Revenue |
 A$8.93 billion (March 2013) |
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A$764 million (March 2013) |
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Number of employees
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more than 8,700 (March 2013) |
| Website | optus.com.au |
Singtel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel since 2001. The company primarily trades under the Optus brand, while maintaining several wholly owned subsidiary brands, such as Virgin Mobile Australia in the mobile telephony market, Uecomm in the network services market and Alphawest in the ICT services sector.
To provide services, Optus mostly owns and operates its own network infrastructure, and also uses the wholesale services of the National Broadband Network and Telstra. It provides services both directly to end users and also acts as a wholesaler to other service providers such as Exetel and Amaysim. Through its Optus 'Yes' brand, it provides broadband, and wireless internet services. Other wholesale services include Satellite and 4G Mobile, in fact Optus is the largest satellite wholesaler in Australia.
The company was originally known as Aussat Pty Limited prior to privatisation, when it became Optus Communications Pty Limited. It was later renamed to Cable & Wireless Optus Pty Limited before changing again to its present name.
The word "Optus" is Latin for "to choose" or "to decide".
Key Optus products and services include:
Retail services are sold to customers via phone, internet or through retail outlets, especially franchise chains such as Optus World, Network Communications, Strathfield, Telechoice, and Allphones.
A number of notable wholly owned subsidiaries operate in Australia as part of the Singtel Optus group. These are:
Until 20 January 2013, Optus sold mobile services under the brand name Boost Mobile.
Optus also has a 50% stake in the now defunct OPEL Networks.
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