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Telecom - Source: ONE News -
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Telecom will on Friday put forward what it calls a "powerful" proposal to work with the government on its $1.5 billion broadband roll-out.
Friday is the deadline for organisations to respond to the government's invitation to take part in providing ultra-fast broadband for New Zealand.
Crown Fibre Holdings (CFH), which is running the tender process, received 38 expressions of interest in November last year.
CFH chairman Simon Allen said he would know by the end of the day how many proposals had come in.
The identity of the organisations and their proposals were confidential, he said.
Telecom said it would provide a preferred commercial model proposal and an alternative commercial model.
The alternative proposal focuses on delivering a national network using Telecom's fibre-to-the-node programme as the logical springboard for the government's vision of fibre-to-the-home, proposal, said chief executive Paul Reynolds.
"Telecom will submit a powerful proposition that will ensure the fast delivery of a national fibre network with none of the government's money being wasted through duplicating what is already built."
It would make the maximum use of the fibre already in the ground, be future-proofed, built to international standards and an "open to all comers" network," he said.
Telecom was also open to discussing other alternative proposals which achieved the government's objective, he said.
CFH will evaluate the proposals before reporting to Communications and Information Technology Minister Steven Joyce.
