<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Yeah – interesting few weeks. All I can say is that the network was built with 624 cores everywhere. Superloop has a long term IRU over plenty of fibre for its needs (and Megaports). Amcom get immediate access to the east coast of Australia. Good deal for both parties.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>[b]</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Skeeve Stevens <<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday, 3 November 2014 10:49 am<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "<a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [AusNOG] News: Amcom buys Megaport Fibre + 15 Year lease agreement of FirstPath and questions Vocus<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>It is news Monday again... fun fun.</div><div><br></div><div>So... in an announcement available at: <a href="http://investor.amcom.com.au/IRM/Company/ShowPage.aspx/PDFs/1622-10000000/AmcomExecutesEastCoastExpansion">http://investor.amcom.com.au/IRM/Company/ShowPage.aspx/PDFs/1622-10000000/AmcomExecutesEastCoastExpansion</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Amcom states that it has:</b></div><div><br></div><div>- Purchased the 180km of fibre assets of Megaport in Melbourne, Sydney</div><div><br></div><div>- It has agreed on access to access of the FirstPath network (15 years) for </div><div><br></div><div>- 30 Exchanges are being fitted out with EFM with customers on-boarding from Q1 2015</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>A side note:</b></div><div><br></div><div>While Megaport has sold its fibre assets to Amcom, Superloop (Which provides fibre to Megaport) has a lease-back agreement for a very long term from Amcom for a significant amount of capacity. This means Megaport/Superloop still have access to capacity, and potentially even more from the Amcom network infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>An interesting note at the bottom of the ASX announcement is:</b></div><div><br></div><div>-----</div><div><b><i>Update on Proposal from Vocus Communications Limited (VOC) </i></b></div><div><br></div><div>Further to its announcement on 27 October 2014, outlining receipt of a confidential,
conditional, incomplete and non-binding proposal from Vocus Communications Limited (“the
Proposal”), Amcom confirms it is continuing discussions with Vocus to determine whether or
not there is a basis to progress the Proposal.
There remains no certainty that these discussions will result in a transaction.</div><div>-----<br></div><div><br></div><div>Hostile approach by Vocus perhaps? Clearly Amcom doesn't see the Vocus announcement of last week in the same way that Vocus does.</div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>...Skeeve</div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Skeeve Stevens - </b><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com</a> ; <a href="http://www.eintellegonetworks.com/" target="_blank">www.eintellegonetworks.com</a></span><font><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px">Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; <a>skype://skeeve</a></p><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><a href="http://facebook.com/eintellegonetworks" target="_blank">facebook.com/eintellegonetworks</a> ; <a href="http://twitter.com/networkceoau" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/skeeve" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/skeeve</a> </p><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><a href="http://twitter.com/theispguy" target="_blank">twitter.com/theispguy</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> ; blog: </span><a href="http://www.theispguy.com/" target="_blank">www.theispguy.com</a><br></p><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><img src="http://eintellegonetworks.com/logos/ein09.png"><br></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="color: rgb(127, 0, 127); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Experts Who The Experts Call</span></p></font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(127,0,127)"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">Juniper - Cisco </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- Cloud</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- Consulting</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- IPv4 Brokering</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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