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Industrynews
The team involved with building a new fibre cable to connect New Zealand with
America wants to break the current monopoly on supply and eliminate
broadband data caps.
Pacific Fibre’s new undersea cable is aiming to make “fast, inexpensive,
unlimited broadband” a reality in New Zealand by 2014.
CEO Mark Rushworth says supply is currently outstripping demand for internet use
but that will change soon with the government’s ultra fast broadband (UFB) roll-out.
“The issue we are solving for New Zealand is at the moment there is only that
one cable, Southern Cross. So essentially you have an economic problem where
you have a monopoly provider setting the price.”
Mr Rushworth explained to AMP Business that price setting results in data caps
on individual broadband plans and Pacific Fibre wants to change that.
“What we want to do is bring competition in to the NZ markets so that we see
pressure on prices and people can enjoy higher data caps, or at some point, the
removal of data caps,” he said.
He believes if a monopoly stays in place, people using UFB – which should be up
to 10 times faster than current speeds – will simply exceed their data caps more
quickly.
“There needs to be an increase in data caps, just to keep up with the speed
improvements the government is driving with ultra fast broadband,” Mr
Rushworth explained.
Pacific Fibre – New Zealand Email:
Website:
Cords Cable has received approval
from Nuclear Power Corporation of
India Ltd (NPCIL) for its LV Power
Cables.
NPCIL is the nodal Indian
government agency responsible for
setting up nuclear power projects
in India.
With this new approval, and the
existing approval for instru-
mentation, control, signalling,
communication and thermocouple
cables, Cords’ entire cable range is
approved with the Nuclear Power
Corporation.
The organisation is now poised to
serve this emerging segment in
India with its complete product
range.
Cords Cable – India
Fax: +91 112 695 1196
Email:
Website:
NPC approval
for Cords
New cable could end data caps