Regional telco provider, TransACT, is stamping its own name onto its Victoria-based subsidiary, Neighbourhood Cable.

Communications service provider, TransACT and Neighbourhood Cable (NCPL), will begin offering a range of Google Apps to its customers.

The Federal Government’s $36 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) aspires to be an open-access network which will eventually level the playing-field in the broadband market for ISPs nationwide.

But one company already has its own open-access network, albeit on a smaller scale.

TransACT began its life in the 2000 and has strong ties with the main utility services supplier in ACT, ActewAGL. Its origins stemmed from the fact Telstra and Optus left Canberra out of their HFC broadband network footprint.