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ACCC clears Optus to scrap HFC network and use NBN instead

The ACCC has cleared, provisionally, the proposed deal between Optus and NBN Co under which Optus is to be paid around $800m to shut down its HFC network and transfer customers onto the NBN. read more

Aspect Software names new ANZ manager

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Contact solutions provider, Aspect Software, has named Michael Woodham country manager for Australia and New Zealand. Woodham, who will be based in Sydney, brings more than 15 years of IT industry experience in Australia and New Zealand to the top regional job at Aspect. Since 2001, Woodham has held a variety of roles at Aspect Communications, including sales manager for Australasia. Prior to joining Aspect Communications, Woodham spent ten years at SSA Pacific, most recently as sales director for the Northern Region with responsibility for sales in Queensland and New South Wales. He also spent one year as NZ Country Manager for SSA Pacific with full revenue responsibility for New Zealand, and before that in various sales management and sales positions where he engaged in strategic planning, partnerships, systems integration and solution selling activities.