TPG, Optus prove ACCC right with 11-year network sharing deal

By Ry Crozier

To start "early 2025", pending approvals.

TPG Telecom and Optus have agreed to share regional spectrum and mobile network infrastructure for 11 years, after a similar deal between Telstra and TPG was sunk by regulators.

The deal will allow TPG Telecom to serve customers from 2444 towers instead of 755 today, and covers both 4G and 5G services.

The likelihood of TPG and Optus being able to agree to terms was used by the ACCC to scuttle an earlier proposed deal between TPG and Telstra.

Optus - which had opposed a TPG-Telstra arrangement - argued at the time that a deal with TPG could be done.

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