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Article published on Australian Financial Review, 10 May 2021 | Lucas Baird

Civilization VI – the latest in a decades-old series of empire-building strategy video games – has an unexpected relationship to the $650 million auction of super-fast millimetre wave mobile spectrum.

It, and not regular bidding war tactics, is what Pentanet founder Stephen Cornish credits for his company’s successful $8 million tilt for key space on the bedrock of future 5G networks.

Pentanet secured 200MHz of 26GHz spectrum bandwidth in its native Perth late last month, a coup that will boost the company’s ability to compete with major players while building out its core fixed-wireless product in the west.

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Video game strategy helped small ISP battle giants for spectrum