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Thread ID: 126011 2012-08-01 11:34:00 Pacific Fibre gives up - No second fibre optic cable ! Digby (677) PC World Chat
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1292150 2012-08-01 23:51:00 The Pacific Fibre was a single cable, no redundancy. Southern Cross looks like a figure 8.www.southerncrosscables.com PaulD (232)
1292151 2012-08-01 23:55:00 This may be the real reason it's fallen over

www.interest.co.nz

Any Chinese investment,no go
Lawrence (2987)
1292152 2012-08-02 00:04:00 Yeah basically there's plenty of capacity left in the SCC, but it's more about trying to squeeze out more cost.

That said AFAIK the issue is more with ISP's milking it and oversubscription rates rather than an issue with upstream international circuits.
Chilling_Silence (9)
1292153 2012-08-02 02:18:00 ISPs milking it? surely not ;) KarameaDave (15222)
1292154 2012-08-02 02:30:00 Yeah of course it *legit* costs them $2 per-GB... Chilling_Silence (9)
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