HyperOne to deploy $1.5bn, 20,000km fibre backbone across Australia

By Ry Crozier

New Bevan Slattery startup emerges.

HyperOne, a new startup from Bevan Slattery, has revealed plans to spend $1.5 billion building a private Australia-wide fibre backbone with interconnection points for new subsea cables.

The massive project and investment was unveiled in the early hours of Thursday, and is described as “the largest private digital infrastructure project in Australia’s history”.

It includes the deployment of 20,000-plus kilometres of fibre “connecting major data hubs in every capital city in every state and territory across Australia.”

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