Networks

QR Network operates an open-access railway providing Queensland with rail and communications connections that link major metropolitan areas to remote regions, rich mining provinces to export markets and freight suppliers to customer markets.

Telecommunications network

QR Network, on behalf of QR Limited, owns, operates and maintains a substantial investment in its Telecommunications Backbone Network (TBN).  Supplemented by external services, the TBN is used to support QR’s operational and business communications.

QR Network seeks to reduce the overall costs of the TBN through commercial arrangements with external telecommunications carriers and other parties. 

QR Network is not a carrier under the Telecommunications Act.  It does operate by offering the wholesale market non-exclusive and open telecommunications products and services through the use of multiple carriers on a commercially viable basis. 

Telecommunications tower

A QR Network telecommunications tower.

Services on offer

QR network offers four products and services to the market:

  • Data services: the sale of excess and new data capacity on the TBN. 
  • Dark fibre: the sale of spare fibre optic cores on QR’s fibre optic cables.
  • Use of rail corridor or telecommunications infrastructure by carriers for the installation of carrier owned telecommunications equipment in return for a license fee.  The license fee may be in the form of cash or QR use of carrier’s infrastructure (e.g. optic fibre), which alleviates the need for QR to install its own cable and therefore avoids capital expenditure.
  • Site Access: Access to radio communications towers in return for a licence fee.

Contact

To enquire about above products and services offered please contact QR Network on through this online enquiry form.

Section navigation: Telecommunications network

Did you know?

Rail is a much safer form of transport than road (road has approximately 40 times the amount of transport fatalities than rail).

Road produces approximately 4.5 times more CO2 equivalent (green house gas emissions) than rail.

On 1 September 2008, QR Network Pty Ltd became a stand alone subsidiary company of QR Ltd.

Queensland’s vast rail network is owned by QR and supported by state of the art infrastructure and systems. The rail network is valued at some $AUD6 billion.

The Australian rail industry is open to competition and in Queensland, rail operators can apply to use QR Network’s 10,000km of narrow gauge, standard gauge and dual gauge track.

More facts and figures

I want to...

Go

Major Programs

  • COALRail

    The COALRail Program will increase capacity and improve performance of the coal supply chains in Queensland from mine by rail to ship.

  • SEQIP Rail

    The SEQIPRAIL program will create a more efficient, accessible and comprehensive transport system in South East Queensland.

Customer & stakeholder portals

QR Network’s portal environments are password protected and only available to existing customers and stakeholders.

Find out more