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| Thread ID: 129331 | 2013-02-18 21:49:00 | New Data Cable to Australia | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1328717 | 2013-02-19 20:09:00 | More capacity is a good thing long term and realistically only the large corporations with a vested interest have the resources and motivation to get it done. Every time someone else tries to get funding for a new cable we hear a lot of optimism for a while and then the project gets canned from lack of funds. As for the anti competitive tendencies, of course they do. The small players piggyback off the larger networks who are forced to offer them low enough prices so they can compete. It's not true competition anyway, just reselling of the ssme services. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1328718 | 2013-02-19 21:15:00 | @dugimodo You are pobably right only the big Telcos have the grunt to build it. I suppose the good thing is that once the cable is built it can't be taken away. And one or more of the parties can sell out or be bought out. But I don't think we will look forward to lower prices - they have to get their money back. But maybe higher or no Data caps - I heard to day that only 4 OECD countries have data caps ! (and guess what - we are one of them - as usual) |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1328719 | 2013-02-20 10:39:00 | This only helps us with bandwidth to Aussie. It may have a small effect on bandwidth to the states, but I doubt it will be significant | Greven (91) | ||
| 1328720 | 2013-02-20 19:54:00 | I see comrade greens have their anti Telecom rant this morning.. www.nzherald.co.nz | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1328721 | 2013-02-20 22:52:00 | This only helps us with bandwidth to Aussie. It may have a small effect on bandwidth to the states, but I doubt it will be significant Thanks - so far you seem to be the only one that realizes the difference between the second cable to Australia - and the complete United States loop that Pacific Fibre were going to lay |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1328722 | 2013-02-20 23:27:00 | I think we all realize that this proposal is not as good as the Pacific Fibre group were hoping to do. But they could not get the investment needed. (and they were top NZ businessmen) But is is better than nothing. And once the cable is there, it can't be taken away and its ownership etc may change over the years. And some commentators are saying that a lot of our stuff comes from Aussie data centres, so maybe that is the way to go and then on to Asia. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1328723 | 2013-02-21 01:01:00 | Well yeah we probably piggy back off a lot of akamai servers from Aus as opposed to from the US where possible coz of the lower latency and higher speeds. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1328724 | 2013-02-21 06:31:00 | Well yeah we probably piggy back off a lot of akamai servers from Aus as opposed to from the US where possible coz of the lower latency and higher speeds. Wonder if will will be subject to the Ozzy censoring of the net when we search ?? |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1328725 | 2013-02-21 07:36:00 | Wot? Aussie censorship? Like the way they filter out Indonesian boat people, or the way they filter out welfare and health benefits for kiwis. Or the way they filter out adequate medical welfare for Aborigines? Out of sight is out of Aussie mind. Anyway, this cable is over-rated. Last I heard it will have a single RJ45 plug on each end, and will terminate in Gareth Morgan's house. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1328726 | 2013-02-21 19:05:00 | And the way they filter out our applies and beetroot. But don't worry Aussie is going to come crashing down over the next few years. 300 jobs gong at Amcor packaging company due to manufacturing down turn. Its not just an Aussie manufacturing downturn its actually a rout Their high wages are just killing their manufacturing sector. Eg to sell their Holdens to the USA they are subsidizing each car by 10,000 dollars |
Digby (677) | ||
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