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New Pacific cable link plan unveiled

By NZ Herald An Auckland-based company appears to be planning another internet link out of New Zealand, just a month after Pacific Fibre abandoned its cable project. Hawaiki Cable, set up in May this year, has revealed a blueprint for a 10,000 km cable between New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii. This main cable will also [...]

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What the Pacific Fibre collapse means for NZ

By IT News The demise of the Pacific Fibre project leaves New Zealand users in a precarious position With only one operator, Southern Cross Cable, connecting New Zealand to the rest of the world, we face a monopoly that may offer us better rates, but equally may not Compare this situation with Australia, which already [...]

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Pacific Fibre: Sam Morgan announces closure of cable company, unable to raise $400m

By Pacific Fibre The Pacific Fibre board today resolved to cease operations, citing an inability to raise the NZ$400m required to fund the cable build. Pacific Fibre launched in March 2010 and planned to build a 13,000km high-speed fibre-optic cable connecting New Zealand and Australia to California. “A 13,000km cable is clearly an audacious thing [...]

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APTelecom Appointed as Pre-Sales Manager for Pacific Fibre

By AP Telecom APTelecom, a facilities-based telecom consulting and service company specializing in emerging markets, today announced the addition of Pacific Fibre to its growing roster of submarine cable pre-sales consulting clients. As part of the  engagement, APTelecom will be tasked with managing a significant portion of the pre-sales efforts for Pacific Fibre’s soon-to-be-constructed subsea cable [...]

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Pacific Fibre sets mid-June deadline

By The Australian Financial Review David Ramli New Zealand-based Pacific Fibre has set a mid-June deadline for obtaining the funds it needs to build a $US400?million ($389 million) undersea cable after months of delays. The company’s ambitious plan is to run a 12,950 kilometre undersea link from Sydney to Auckland before heading across the Pacific [...]

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Pacific Fibre stirs up FUD about Huawei’s sub cable technology

By IT Wire Pacific Fibre – which has yet to secure the finance needed to build the system, estimated cost $US400m – announced last July that it had contracted US based TE SubCom (formerly Tyco Submarine Systems) to build the 12,750km system. In January 2012, Huawei announced that its subsea cable division, Huawei Marine had [...]

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APTelecom Announces Launch of ‘State of Subsea’ Event Series

By AP Telecom APTelecom, a facilities-based telecom consulting and service company specializing in emerging markets, today announced that it will [...]

Warley Design Helps Develop Next-Generation Optical Repeater For Subsea Cable Systems

By Warley Design Warley Design Solutions has helped a leading global supplier of optical networking solutions to develop an industry-leading [...]

The INTERNATIONAL CABLE PROTECTION COMMITTEE announces search for a General Manager

By ICPC Press Release With the intent of maintaining its presence as the premier organization for the protection of submarine [...]

Fibre Needs The Regulators

By Gadget Telecommunications regulators and African governments need to clear away the red tape and regulatory risks around laying fibre [...]

Tender Issued For Construction Of New Telecommunications Cable

By Voxy The three telecommunications companies that intend to co-invest in a new submarine cable between New Zealand and Australia [...]

Xtera Communications Partners With Warley Design To Develop New Optical Repeater For Subsea Cabling

Online PR News – 12-June-2013 –Warley Design Solutions, one of the UK’s leading independent providers of mechanical design and engineering [...]