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The contract - which carries a two year extension option - is for the provision of Wideband and Dedicated Digital Network (DDN) works throughout Australia. According to Visionstream general manager, Allan Bradford, Visionstream has been providing the service nationally since 2004. It is one of two providers.

Visionstream fulfils about 300 orders per month installing pit and pipe facilities, performing street and in-building cable hauls, installing racks of equipment in telephone exchanges and customers' premises, managing building owner access and permissions, council authorisations, and environmental and heritage searches.

Bradford told ExchangeDaily: "The work is almost exclusively providing business connections back into Telstra exchanges. It is all fibre, for new companies or for companies relocating...Most of the work getting the customer connected is done by us...We do the work inside the Telstra exchange and connect it active equipment in the customers' premises, and lay fibre."

Bradford said the company had about 150-200 people permanently working on the contract but at any one time there could be up to 300 staff working on the contract.

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