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Questioning Rod Drury’s Pacific Fibre reboot
Xero founder Rod Drury offers an alternative technology-focused budget at the NBR’s website. Drury’s first item is a Pacific Fibre reboot: The government announces NewZealand.net, a new Crown-owned...
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Tasman Global Access on trans-Pacific latency
As a follow-up to Questioning Rod Drury’s Pacific Fibre reboot, I had a message from Andrew Pirie who is Telecom general manager of corporate relations. He says the Tasman Global Access team calculates...
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Last week’s top posts on digitl
The five top stories on my new digitl.co.nz stories for last week: Will Labour get behind submarine cable? Labour leadership candidate Grant Robinson hinted he would support a new internet link between...
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Hawaiki deal revives trans-Pacific cable excitement
Hawaiki Cable resurfaced today announcing a deal to land its US$350 million trans-Pacific cable in the Whangarei area. The company first came to light a year ago at the Pacific Leaders Forum in the...
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Southern Cross complete trans-Pacific cable capacity upgrade as rival surfaces
Southern Cross Cable Network says it has successfully implemented Ciena’s 100G transmission equipment across its network. Sales and marketing director Ross Pfeffer says the move increases capacity to...
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Hawaiki edges closer with Australian deal
Hawaiki’s plan to build a 14,000km trans-Pacific submarine cable edges closer thanks to a multi-million dollar deal signed in Australia. TPG Telecom said it will buy Australia-US and Australia-New...
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Briefly: Will Labour get behind submarine cable? LG’s HD tablet, Mako Networks
Would-be Labour leader Grant Robinson says he would support a new submarine cable linking New Zealand to the rest of the world. The comment came on TVNZ’s Q and A programme on Sunday morning where he...
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Big demand for Vocus AWS service
Vocus NZ sales manager Steven Stanford says there is a high level of interest in his company’s Cloud Connect product which can link New Zealand companies directly to Amazon’s data centre in Australia....
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Government tips $15 m into submarine cable
Communications and IT Minister Amy Adams. Besieged by complaints about government favours to network company Chorus, Communications Minster Amy Adam found time for an announcement about government...
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Hawaiki signs cable-laying contract
Hawaiki’s plan for a submarine cable linking Australia and New Zealand to Hawaii edges closer with the signing of a supply contract with TE SubCom. The deal will see the supplier design and lay fibre...
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Telecom NZ data use up and the case for trans-Tasman cable
Telecom NZ reports an 83 percent growth in data use on its mobile network in the past year. It says increasing smartphone ownership and video streaming applications are behind the surge. The company...
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Hawaiki goes the extra 4000 km
Hawaiki Cable Limited says it now plans to land its 14,000 km trans-Pacific submarine cable in Oregon, USA. Previously the company talked of connecting Australia, New Zealand and possibly a number of...
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A trans-Pacific cable hurrah
Hawaiki’s planned US$300 million submarine cable linking New Zealand, Australia and the United States looks more likely. The Dominion-Post’s Tom Pullar-Strecker reports the project will soon confirm...
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Arguments for and against a second submarine cable
Brendan Ritchie from DTS revisits the arguments for an against building a new submarine cable linking New Zealand to the world. In How will a new international cable benefit NZ? Ritchie looks at...
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Another cable won’t lower NZ internet costs
There is a good reason to build another submarine cable linking New Zealand to the world. Cheaper internet is not that reason. A press release from the Internet Party suggests a second international...
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Tasman Global Access addresses internet centre of gravity shift
New Zealand’s internet centre of gravity is shifting. Until now New Zealand data traffic was mainly east to and from the US. That’s changing. Increasingly our traffic goes west across the Tasman to...
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Trans-Tasman cable gets regulatory green light
When Spark, Vodafone and Telstra announced plans to lay a NZ$90 million submarine cable under the Tasman Tom Pullar-Strecker reported for Stuff on a potential regulatory hurdle. Today the Commerce...
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Questions as Vocus lifts Southern Cross capacity
In a press release Vocus says it aims to lift its Southern Cross capacity by 10 times. Sydney-based Vocus entered into an agreement to buy extra capacity on the undersea link between New Zealand,...
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Trans-Pacific submarine cable phoney war
A new company plans to build a transpacific submarine cable. By now I have the hang of how this works: First, there’s a big announcement complete with a list of features showing the planned cable...
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What Hawaiki cable green light means for New Zealand
Odd email appears in journalists’ inboxes on April 1. Here’s one: Please find attached a media release from Hawaiki announcing the coming into force of the Hawaiki cable. Please also note that despite...
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