NBN Co buys Austar wireless spectrum for $120m

Feb 17, 2011 4 Replies

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Don McKenzie 15 years ago

NBN Co will spend $120 million buying spectrum licences owned by Austar for fixed-wireless services to 4 percent of the population.

Construction of the fixed wireless network was expected to begin in December.

"The $120 million payment comprises $58 million for the subsidiary that holds the spectrum licenses with a further $62 million for the assignment of this subsidiary's debt," NBN Co said in a statement.

The spectrum licences covered the 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz bands.

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B J Foster 15 years ago

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How much dedicated bandwidth did NBNCo just purchase?

If allocated on the same basis (LOL) as the fibre, 16Mbps at 10% utilisation by 4% of the population (which is about 200,000 homes) then they need around 320Gbps.

How many satellites are they planning to launch?

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B J Foster 15 years ago

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They only started advertising for a Head of Wireless design last week:

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Rod Speed 15 years ago

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Its a terrestrial service, not satellite, stupid.

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Jasen Betts 15 years ago

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I've not seen the licences, but from memory they were running 14 conse3cutive 7mhz-wide analogue TV channels, so atleast 100Mhz.

Austar was using those frequencies for terrestrial broadcasting. So, probably none.

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