Six share NBN Co contracts worth up to $635m

NBN Co has awarded six suppliers contracts worth up to $635m over the at once five years for customer premises equipment for its FTTP network

The equipment to be supplied includes internal fibre distribution hubs for apartment blocks and offices, internal cables, wall outlets, patch leads, and devices that will house the connection of the fibre from the street to the outside of premises. These elements will be used by NBN Co and its contractors for free standard installations when residents and business owners order a service from their retail service provider.

Corning will supply internal fibre distribution hubs, fibre distribution terminals, internal service drop cable, internal multi-fibre cable; network termination unit patch leads and premises cable. Premises cable will as well be sourced from Optimal / OFS.

The contract is its second from NBN Co

For Australian company Warren & Brown the contract is its second from NBN Co. In January it was awarded a contract worth up to $110m over five years to provide the optical distribution frames and sub-racks that will connect NBN Co's equipment to external cabling within NBN Co's network. The company said it had already hired 40 staff as a result of this previously contract.

Corning as well was awarded a contract in January 2011, worth up to $1.6b for aerial cable, splice closures, feeder cables and drop cables to connect individual user premises to the fibre network.

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