TPG Telecom has been quietly negotiating a multibillion-dollar sale and leaseback of its non-mobile fibre assets with Macquarie-backed rival Vocus in a bid to lighten its $6.2 billion debt load, Street Talk can reveal.
TPG Telecom CEO Inaki Berroeta. Louie Douvis
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