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Conroy scraps Opel deal

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Apr 2, 2008 5:14 AM EDT
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FEDERAL Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has canned the former Coalition government's billion dollar regional broadband deal with the Opel consortium of Optus and Elders.

Senator Conroy came to the decision when internal analysis conducted by his department showed that Opel could not provide coverage "reasonably equivalent" to 90 per cent.

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