TECHNOLOGY SPECTATOR: NBN Co's blinkered satellite deal

Regional telco provider activ8me stands to win from the national broadband network, but why does NBN Co seem unconcerned about the legally troubled history of its owner?

By Jason Bryce · 20 Oct 2011

By Jason Bryce ·
20 Oct 2011

Technology Spectator

This week NBN Co released its rollout plan for the next twelve months.

One of the big winners from the rollout is activ8me who will sell subsidised NBN satellite services as well as fibre broadband plans despite legal issues swirling around its owner and at least two recent senior executives.

Activ8me says NBN Co did not ask any questions about activ8me's continued employment of disqualified company director Sandro Di Donato.

Sandro Di Donato, the owner and founder of the company that owns activ8me, is still involved at a very senior management level in active8me despite being disqualified as a company director by ASIC in January this year.

Di Donato resigned as director of his own company Australian Private Networks Pty Ltd (APN), which owns activ8me, on January 25, but continued to work as activ8me's business development manager.