Optus to provide comms to Australia's offshore detention centres

Wins AU$115m contract with Department of Immigration and Border Protection

Singtel's Australian arm, Optus, has won a three-year, AU$115-million deal to provide "end-to-end telecommunications and managed IT services" to Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection." Upon receiving news of the contract win, Vulture South asked Optus if it Australia's offshore immigration detention centres and have been told that the company "... provides connectivity to the centres, however we do not provide services within the centres.""