The Southern Cross Cable provides most of the bandwidth from Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii to the US internet via 2 submarine communications cables. It was announced today that that capacity has now been extended by another 260Gbit/s and by the end of the year capacity would be 860Gbit/s.
The New Zealand Institute is suggesting that a single company owned by existing tele communications companies, utilities, local government and other private investors be given monolopy ownership of last mile connections – that is connections between exchanges or street cabinets and user premises.
Tags: broadband, fibre, new zealand
AOL is to be purchased by Bebo, a leading networking website in a $US850 million cash deal. Founded by British born Michael Birch and his partner Xochi in 2005, Bebo claims to have 40 million montly users worldwide. In New Zealand Bebo is the favourite social networking website for teenagers.
Tags: aol, bebo, socal networking
Auckland University of Technology has undertaken a survey as part of the World Internet Project (WIP) which looks at social, political and economic impact of the internet and other new technologies.
Yesterday the Commerce Commission released its final pricing on unbundled bitstream (naked DSL). This allows customers to use their phone line for broadband and use VoIP for phone calls – no need for a phone line.
Canadian publisher and philanthropist Louise MacBain, has launched a new social networking site for artists, underlining the growing influence of the Internet in showcasing and selling art.
Surprise, surprise. The Consumers’ Institute yesterday announced that Xtra was the least popular internet service provider for the third year in a row.