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  • TPG: Don't worry, we're just like Optus

    A spokesperson for Pipe Networks' potential new parent, SP Telemedia, has pointed to Optus as a prime example of how it can successfully operate a wholesale and retail telco.

  • Industry laments loss of Pipe Networks

    Pipe Networks' chief, Bevan Slattery, may have found his "cash-out" door from the company that helped internet service providers snub Telstra, but many of those customers are not happy that a direct competitor could now control it.

  • SP Telemedia to buy Pipe Networks for $373m

    SP Telemedia, owner of TPG and Soul internet service providers, has announced its intention to acquire Pipe Networks for $373 million.

  • Soul and Pipe Networks do deal?

    Pipe Networks and SP Telemedia have both gone into a trading halt this morning, pending announcements to be made later in the week.

  • Pipe's Guam cable carries first packets

    Last month, Pipe Network's PPC-1 cable from Sydney to Guam carried its first light. This time, tests run with early customer, Internode, has seen the cable carry its first data packets.

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    Is wholesale-only backhaul just a pipedream?

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Could you believe in Steve?

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  • Pipe Networks sell-out an absolute travesty

    The proposed buyout of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia is an absolute travesty for Australia's telecommunications industry and will be overwhelmingly negative for customers, Pipe Networks staff, shareholders and the industry as a whole.

  • Mike Quigley: The background check

    Father, brother, cancer survivor, highly intelligent engineer and leader of the "Australian mafia" group of executives who battled their way to the top of global telco supplier Alcatel-Lucent. We present Mike Quigley, executive chairman of the National Broadband Network Company.

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