By Peter Dinham, IT Wire

Nextgen Networks has secured a deal with mining company Roy Hill to provide high-speed data connections between the miner’s communications system in Port Hedland and its Perth-based remote operations centre.

The deal comes less than a month after former AAPT boss David Yuile took over the reins as CEO of Nextgen on 8 April.

Yuile was at the helm of then struggling AAPT when it was sold for the pennies on the dollar price of $450 million by Telecom New Zealand to TPG Telecom in December 2013.

“As new technologies are introduced in the mining industry, Nextgen is actively working to provide companies in the West with competitive solutions which support these new capabilities.

“We are investing more than $100m in the North West Submarine Cable from Port Hedland to Darwin with our project partners, Alcatel Submarine Networks, a project that will deliver state-of-the-art, high-speed data communications services to offshore and onshore resource operations.”

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