Downer, Visionstream win $450M of Chorus maintenance contracts

Downer, Visionstream win $450M of Chorus maintenance contracts
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth May 14 (BusinessDesk) - Chorus has hired Downer EDI and Cimic Group's Visionstream to maintain its copper and fibre telecommunications network for the next three years at a cost of about $450 million.  The new contracts cut out Broadspectrum, which along with Downer and Visionstream was one of Chorus's existing maintenance contractors. Under the new framework, Visionstream will cover Auckland and all areas north of Auckland, while Downer gets the rest of New Zealand. The maintenance deals are separate to the ultrafast broad...

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