<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Hope for Tassie backhaul ???</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://northerntasmania.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/economy-business-it-finance/aurora-and-basslink-in-broadband-deal/1356419.aspx">http://northerntasmania.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/economy-business-it-finance/aurora-and-basslink-in-broadband-deal/1356419.aspx</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; ">Aurora and Basslink in broadband deal</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; ">AURORA Energy and Basslink have today signed a contract under which they say they will each deliver nationally competitive broadband services to Tasmania.<p>The agreement was signed in Hobart by the chief executives of Basslink and Aurora, Mr Malcolm Eccles and Dr Peter Davis, in the company of Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett and Treasurer Michael Aird.</p><p><p>In a media statement the two companies said the agreement would bring competition to Tasmanian broadband telecommunications.</p><p>The joint agreement will mean Basslink and Aurora will both compete with Telstra and with each other in providing wholesale capacity between Melbourne and Tasmanias main population centres.</p></p><p>[......]</p></span></b></span></font></div></body></html>