Aussie manufacturers score NBN equipment contracts

Three Australian-based manufacturers are the beneficiaries of National Broadband Network equipment contracts worth more than $1.6 billion.

The companies will supply what the NBN Co has defined as 'passive' network infrastructure, just as telecommunications cabling, to be used in the construction of the NBN while the then and there five years.

"This contract proves that our belief henceforth of telecommunications fibre research was justified," he said.

A contract worth $300 million over five years for underground cabling went to Prysmian, a global manufacturer of telecommunications cabling with manufacturing facilities in Dee Why and Liverpool, NSW.

"We at the time expect the flow on employment effect could be as high as 2:1, with extra jobs being created in transport and logistics, training and administration, as so then as in businesses with end user applications," he said.

The contracts follow the announcement in June that Alcatel-Lucent was selected by the NBN Co as the initial strategic supplier for the gigabit passive optical network and Ethernet aggregation equipment.

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