According to an Article published by the Australian Financial Review, an undisclosed source has said that lat least six parties had notified Communications Minister Senator Conroy they planned to take part in the tender.

It has been speculated that the German based Telecoms group, Deutsche Telekom, could join forces with the G9 as an independent operator of the network, or even the G9 and Telstra working together. Macquarie Group is supposidly in bed with Leighton Holdings.

However, all of this is just speculation by the media and once the bond is paid, there is effectively a gag order (if you want you money back) on all the bidders.