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[Just Another Mobile Phone Blog] Ausgrid Managing Director George Maltabarow explained: "A smart grid needs a communications platform to bring real-time data back from our substations, field devices and smart meters so we can turn it into useful information for field staff, engineers and households. The communications network is essential to transforming the electricity network into a two-way grid that is smarter, greener, more reliable and more interactive for households." Ausgrid began trials of a communications network in 2009 with an initial deployment of WiMAX radio equipment.

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