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Submarine cable war heats up

“I'll see your new cable, and raise you another strand of fibre.”

Chris Keall
Sat, 17 Sep 2016
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State of the kiwi cables

TODAY:

  • The Southern Cross Cable, built for $1.3b ($1.8b in today’s money) and launched in 2001, is NZ’s only major broadband connection to the outside world. It’s actually a twin system of cables, forming a figure 8 between Sydney, Auckland, Hawaii and the US.

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Chris Keall
Sat, 17 Sep 2016
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