BAI Communications, formerly Broadcast Australia, is an Australian telecommunications systems company.

History

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completed its acquisition of National Transmission Agency in 2002 the seed asset in the publicly listed Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group (MCIG) fund and rebranded it as Broadcast Australia. The MCIG fund, including Broadcast Australia, was acquired by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in 2009. In November 2019, Broadcast Australia was rebranded BAI Communications.

Operations and acquisitions

BAI Communications has funded a number of initiatives, for example: *

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networks to provide coverage in the places that are unreachable by traditional cellular phone services * Broadcast Australia are under contract to maintain the digital radio infrastructure for all

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radio stations * Digital transmission service provider for

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* Transmission services for

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* A three-year trial in Sydney extended to six-years of a

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service using the

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* Transmission services for

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Broadcast facilities

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References

External links

Company website
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