Leighton in talks to sell telco assets to Canadian fund
Leighton Holdings has entered into negotiations with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) to sell 70 per cent of its telco assets, which include Nextgen Networks, Metronode and Infoplex.
Leighton Holdings has entered into negotiations with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) to sell 70 per cent of its telco assets, which include Nextgen Networks, Metronode and Infoplex.
Fibre provider, Nextgen Networks, has completed the last component of the Federal Government’s $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP) in the Northern Territory.
Fibre backhaul provider, Nextgen Networks, has completed the second link in as many weeks of the Federal Government’s $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP), with the 129 kilometre link in South Australia going live.
The competitive fibre backhaul link between Perth and Geraldton — part of the $250 million NBN Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP) — is live and open for business.
Repairs to a Nextgen Network’s interstate optical fibre cable, severed during recent flooding in Queensland, have commenced and are expected to be completed within the next few days.
Nextgen Networks has announced it is halfway to completing its 6000 kilometre of rollout backbone transmission points as a part of the Australian Government’s $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP).
Fox Sports will tap its high-speed fibre network to deliver more sports events online and in 3D next year as the content producer pushes its credentials at the time when the major sports codes are deciding their broadcast futures.
Nextgen networks is set to start construction on a fibre link between Darwin and Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory early next month.
Work has commenced on the roll out of fibre optic backhaul between Perth and Geraldton in Western Australia that will help Australia’s bid for the global astronomy project, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
Australia's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) over competitor South Africa will rely on the Federal Government's Regional Backbone Blackspots Program announced last year.
The first fibre optic backbone link for the NBN on mainland Australia has been laid at Mount Isa.
Leighton Holdings-owned Nextgen Networks has won a contract to rollout backbone transmission points to 100 access points as part of the Regional Backbone Blackspots Program.