{"id":90447,"date":"1999-12-31T00:22:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/tpg-to-fibre-up-vodafone-and-resell-voda-services\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:22:00","slug":"tpg-to-fibre-up-vodafone-and-resell-voda-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/tpg-to-fibre-up-vodafone-and-resell-voda-services\/","title":{"rendered":"TPG To Fibre-Up Vodafone &#8211; And Resell Voda Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone has contracted TPG to provide dark-fibre backhaul to more than 3000 of its base station sites over the next three years &#8211;  and in a separate deal, TPG will switch its 320,00 mobile customers from the Optus to the Vodafone network.<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">The moves put a value of at least $1 billion on the partnership and see TPG putting further pressure on Optus.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Vodafone will provide the electronics on the fibre, making the cost independent of traffic volumes. The move will make Vodafone much better positioned to cope with the expected increase in data volumes as more and more customers start using its 4G network.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Vodafone CEO I?aki Berroeta, said the company expects data volumes to double every 18 months.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Importantly, the deal will remove one of Vodafone&#8217;s most significant disadvantages compared to Telstra and Optus. As the operators of fixed networks, both have extensive fibre networks that they can use to backhaul their cell sites. Vodafone has had to rely on buying capacity on other fibres or on microwave, which has much lower capacity than fibre.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Said Berroeta: &#8220;Dark fibre allows to us to have our own management of transmission and that means much faster speeds and much lower latency. These will all be requirements of 5G networks.&#8221;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Vodafone CTO Benoit Hanssen said that, when completed, there will be more than 3000km of fibre connecting about two-thirds of Vodafone&#8217;s present cell sites. &nbsp;TPG will continue to own the fibre and its supply agreement with Vodafone is for 15 years.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Mark Rafferty, TPG&#8217;s enterprise and wholesale GM, said the deal would give TPG revenue in excess of $900 million over the 15 year term. The company expects to spend $300-$400 million rolling out the network over the next three years.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Separately, TPG will become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) on the Vodafone network. 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