[AusNOG] News: Amcom buys Megaport Fibre + 15 Year lease agreement of FirstPath and questions Vocus

[Bevan Slattery]

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.

Cheers

[b]

From:  Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>
Date:  Monday, 3 November 2014 10:49 am
To:  "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at ausnog.net>
Subject:  [AusNOG] News: Amcom buys Megaport Fibre + 15 Year lease agreement
of FirstPath and questions Vocus

Hi,

It is news Monday again... fun fun.

So... in an announcement available at:
http://investor.amcom.com.au/IRM/Company/ShowPage.aspx/PDFs/1622-10000000/Am
comExecutesEastCoastExpansion

Amcom states that it has:

- Purchased the 180km of fibre assets of Megaport in Melbourne, Sydney

- It has agreed on access to access of the FirstPath network (15 years) for

- 30 Exchanges are being fitted out with EFM with customers on-boarding from
Q1 2015


A side note:

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.


An interesting note at the bottom of the ASX announcement is:

-----
Update on Proposal from Vocus Communications Limited (VOC)

Further to its announcement on 27 October 2014, outlining receipt of a
confidential, conditional, incomplete and non-binding proposal from Vocus
Communications Limited (³the Proposal²), 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.
-----

Hostile approach by Vocus perhaps?  Clearly Amcom doesn't see the Vocus
announcement of last week in the same way that Vocus does.

...Skeeve

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