The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
The announcement was made by Huawei's global CEO, Ren Zhengfei, accompanied by Victorian premier, John Brumby, at the beginning of 'Victoria Week' at the Shanghai World Expo.
Brumby said: "Huawei is part of a rapidly emerging information and communication technology cluster in Victoria that includes other multinational corporations such as IBM - which has an expanded ICT services centre in Ballarat, Ericsson and Bell Labs.
"Huawei Technologies is the latest international ICT company to expand its Victorian presence, following new investments by US-based Kovair and Indian-based Infosys."
Huawei said also that it had now delivered a range of ethernet switches, GPON access network hardware for fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP), DWDM transmission equipment and its universal network management system (NMS) to the University of Melbourne's Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES), part of its commitments under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with IBES in January this year.
It said this equipment would enable IBES to construct an FTTP test bed to trial future broadband applications that may run on the NBN.
When Huawei's MoU with IBES was announced, Huawei CTO Peter Rossi said the two organisations would also explore the potential of establishing a joint research and development centre in Melbourne.
Speaking at the announcement in Shanghai, Huawei Australia CEO, Guo Fulin, said: "We have grown from a team of 20 to over 200 staff in just four years…[and] Huawei is also in discussions regarding further strategic investments in Victoria to support the rollout of the National Broadband Network."
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