Peter Ward

According to Telstra's national manager for urban development, Peter Ward, Telstra Velocity will transform the way the residents of new estates live, work and communicate, and provide a significant point of difference for new developments.

Telstra Country Wide Area General Manager for Gippsland, Victoria, Mr Peter Ward has welcomed the Australian State Government's funding announcement of US$550,000 toward the implementation of a CDMA 1x network upgrade in the Gippsland region.

The funding was announced by the Hon John Brumby, Minister for State and Regional Development, and will go towards the delivery of a mobile technology service to the Gippsland region.As a result, customers and businesses can benefit from higher speed wireless technology using the CDMA 1x network.

Mr Ward said the funding announcement was wonderful news for the Gippsland area.

"We are thrilled Gippsland has been chosen to benefit from this new technology, and we can now start work on planning and implementing our upgrades to the CDMA network," he said.

Presenter: Peter Ward - National Manager (Telstra Urban Development)

Peter will be talking on the changing requirement of telecommunications wiring in the home. What are the future needs of customers and how to meet them?

Biography: Peter Ward is the National Manager of the Telstra Urban Development Group Peter has been in the industry for over 24 years with experience in the construction services, industrial relations, sales marketing and commercial business.
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Peter is Director of CERQ, an organisation providing consultancy and training solutions to the telecommunications and Digital Reception Industry. Peter has over 18 years experience in competency based training solutions, driving best practice through knowledge, skills and performance. Prior to establishing CERQ, Peter held technical, training and quality management positions in FOXTEL, Optus and the Department of Defence. Peter holds a Diploma of Telecommunications Engineering, a Bachelor of Training, and a Masters in Education from the University of Melbourne.

According to Telstra's national general manager for urban development, Peter Ward, the Smart Community concept is being embraced as developers and consumers realise how central to their lives connectivity has become.

"We recently signed our first Northern Territory project and it's a sign of how important the Internet now is to the way we communicate with the outside world, entertain ourselves, control our living environment, and even work from home," he says.

"It is no longer age or demographic specific, but a fact of life.Quite simply our homes and neighbourhoods now need to reflect this."

Generally, it's the larger developments of 500 homes or more that get access to the Velocity services , fibre to the home, high speed broadband of 10 to 20MB per second (but capable of rising to 100 per second), Pay TV and digital television and telephony , all over one solution.However, Peter says every development is assessed on its merits.

"The Telstra Smart Community is about tailoring communication solutions at a community and home level," he says.

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Telstra Country Wide spokesman Peter Ward says services will only be rolled out to areas where they are commercially viable.

"We've introduced a new program, an industry wide program where communities can put in an expression of interest on line through their service provider," he said.