Optus appoints new Territory General Manager in Tasmania

Optus has appointed a new Territory General Manager in Tasmania, strengthening its commitment to the State.

Peter West started in the newly created position at the end of September and will be based in Tasmania, providing him with greater visibility into the requirements of customers and businesses across the area.

“With our ongoing and significant investment in regional Australia it is important that we have a strong team in place to support and respond to opportunities as they arise. It was also important to us that this role was filled by someone living locally, who understands the needs of the State, said Marcus Grimes, Optus Head of Regional.

“The appointment of Peter further strengthens our regional management team and I am confident of his ability to help grow our business in this key area for Optus.”

In his new role Peter will oversee Optus’ day to day operations across Tasmania, including oversight into the stores across the state.

Speaking about joining the team Peter West, Optus Territory General Manager Tasmania said, “My immediate priority will be to understand from our customers what our greatest challenges and opportunities are. This is important to me, and with Optus providing better network coverage here than ever before and great value for money - Tasmanian’s now have a real choice of telco provider. I’m looking forward to working with the local team here to build on the successes achieved in Tasmania to date.”

The Optus mobile network handles over 31 million calls and 80 million SMS messages each day and carries 16,128 terabytes of data each week. Optus is continuing to expand and strengthen its network to deliver improved data and voice services across metropolitan, regional and remote locations nationally.

In August this year Optus announced it had completed work on 37 new mobile sites across the state, investing $42.2 million in the 12 months prior. Optus also announced further investment of $4.5 million to build another eight sites by March 2019 including new sites at Cradoc, Magra, Salamanca Place, Austins Ferry, Campania, Romaine West, Jericho East and Doctors Rocks.

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