Its immediate predecessor was Optus Vision, a joint venture between its parent company, Optus, and other media communications interests. The Optus Vision joint venture was originally 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 unique hybrid cable to connect homes to its network, and would later add broadbandcable internet access to its network.
When Optus Vision merged back with its parent company, the cable television business continued under the Optus Television banner.
Optus Television reached an agreement with Foxtel to share content.
The official Optus Aurora smartcard is used to control the transmission of authorised programme content into geographic areas in accordance with these regulations.
The system changes are unlikely to affect reception of your Optus Aurora TV and radio services if you have an official Optus Aurora Smartcard installed and activated in your set top box.
The Optus Aurora system is designed to operate in an encrypted format, making use of smartcards, within the set top boxes, to decrypt the services applicable to the entitlements on the particular smartcard, held by the set top box.
The OptusVision 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 and Telstra were the two main telecomunications companies in Australia at the time, and both spent billions on hybrid coax and optic fibre networks in the major capital cities.
Optus were able to have a number of differences between their offering and the Foxtel offering, so that Optus could meet some contractual obligations they had, as well as satisfying a number of requirements placed on the organisation by the ACCC.
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