| | Chello Quits Austar Broadband Venture |
 | | European-based broadband services provider chello is set to hand almost all of its Australian operations over to its joint venture partner, Austar United Communications, after failing to fulfil promises of signing up more than 20,000 users by the end of last year. |
 | | A Financial Review report suggested that chello's move signalled a lack of faith in the broadband services market in Australia, with chello reportedly citing a lack of uptake in the service as a reason for withdrawing from the partnership. |
 | | Austar said in a statement it would continue to offer the chello broadband portal and high speed Internet service as part of its offering, however Austar will take over the operational responsibility for the deployment of chello, including network configuration, marketing and sales, limiting chello's involvement to content and branding. |
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