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| Thread ID: 105899 | 2009-12-18 02:54:00 | Help me understand the Southern Cross Cable | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 840692 | 2009-12-18 20:01:00 | Yeah it's true, $1.5b. Basically it's going to be invested on a repeat network, doing exactly what Chorus has already done. Same for many other providers such as Citylink, Vector etc, the NZ backend is already there. See the first link in my sig for a quick run-down if this is the first you've really heard of it. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 840693 | 2009-12-18 22:08:00 | Chill, Mention, yes mere mention of a competative cable trans tasman, has ALL READY reduced price on the scc. A non Telescam controlled tt cable is the best option for this country. A tt cable will link us to the other side of the loop. syndney up into asia and across the top of the pacific, and sydney to asia to europe and across the atlantic, also australia to sa and up the west cost and across the atlantic. This is why Telescam dropped the data price as soon as they realised the trans tasman talk was POSSIBLY serious. yes we know each other. |
angry (15305) | ||
| 840694 | 2009-12-18 23:49:00 | The SC Company is 40% owned by Telecom NZ and last time I checked has a ex Telecom NZ CEO. Telecom still have a very strong monopoly on NZ broadband because of this, largely missed by our politicians and useless media focused only on the local loop and speed. The very high cost on our data caps is yet another reason to hate that worthless turd of a company :P |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 840695 | 2009-12-19 00:12:00 | " The SC Company is 40% owned by Telecom NZ and last time ==========company :P " Yep, did you read/have you seen the articles on the new tt cable proposal. I read it in the last couple of weeks, herald or Sunday star had some really interesting # on wholesale price decrease's since the project has been seriously mooted. I believe in the end it will fly because some Aussie or Yank will see the opportunity. A simpler and faster startup would be Govt fund a percentage to help startup then sell it off. that is however is to obvious a productive use of public money, also improving services to said public and returning them a profit on sell off. let alone providing a few jobs so, will never happen with so many hairy legged Helens still having a stranglehold on the bureaucracy. |
angry (15305) | ||
| 840696 | 2009-12-19 01:16:00 | From an article linked to above Telecom own 50% of SCC. "The Southern Cross Cable cost around US$1.3 billion to build and was completed seven years ago. Originally designed to provide 120Gbit/s, the fully-protected cable system spans some 32,000 kilometres across the Pacific and is currently part-owned by Telecom New Zealand (50 percent), Singtel/Optus (40 percent) and Verizon Business (10 percent)." |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 840697 | 2009-12-19 02:24:00 | Isn't chorus another SoE? I may be wrong? | PCT Joe (15018) | ||
| 840698 | 2009-12-19 02:48:00 | Isn't chorus another SoE? I may be wrong? You are wrong. Chorus is a the network arm of Telecom. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 840699 | 2009-12-19 09:42:00 | Time to get some media attention around this, I fail to see why the Govt should essentially waste $1,500,000,000 of taxpayers (Yours and mine) money, when it's not gonna do jack. 10 years from now when current ministers are long gone, people will look back and say "Well they screwed up, now time for us to clean up that mess and make a few more international routes like they *should* have 10 years ago". Like seriously if the SCC was worth $1.2b back in the day, how much would another similar spec'd one cost to build in this current day and age? To run to Hawaii or Aus? No doubt less than the $10b odd that the total cost of this fibre rollout is likely to cost. Heads in the sand much minister? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 840700 | 2009-12-19 19:51:00 | Yep I think National should change there party name to Ostrich seems much more suitable | gary67 (56) | ||
| 840701 | 2009-12-19 20:31:00 | Yep I think National should change there party name to Ostrich seems much more suitable To think we got rid of the other dickheads and got more of the same. :blush: :rolleyes: |
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