Telstra and TPG Telecom reach agreement over network and spectrum sharing

Two of the three Australian mobile network operators have agreed to share network assets for the next decade.
The joint statement, which we can only see on the TPG website, refers to a ground-breaking ten-year regional Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN) commercial agreement. There’s oblique reference to ‘regional’ Australia which seems to mean some more sparsely populated bits where the ROI on building infrastructure from scratch isn’t there for smaller TPG. So instead it