March 4, 2013: Australia’s National Broadband Network has signed an important A$300 million deal with France’s Arianespace to launch the NBN satellites into orbit. NBN Co is spending A$620 million on two Ka-band satellites with both expected to be operational by 2015. With US giant Space Systems/Loral currently building the satellites, NBN Co has now secured the services of Arianespace to take them up into space.
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