Why is NZ mobile data expensive?
Rightly or wrongly New Zealand’s measly fixed broadband data caps are often blamed on Southern Cross Cable Network’s effectively monopoly on international data traffic. That’s hardly an excuse for the...
View ArticleTasman 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleTasman 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...
View ArticleTrans-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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleNew cables may revive overseas interest in New Zealand data centres
New Zealand hasn’t been able to capitalise on being a low-cost, green home for data centres. Until now. Tasman Global Access and Hawaiki could change that. At The Register, Simon Sharwood sums it up:...
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