WCA November 2011

Industry news

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. New cable could end data caps

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 : ccil@cordscable.com Website : www.cordscable.com NPC approval for Cords

Pacific Fibre – New Zealand Email : enquiries@pacificfibre.net Website : www.pacificfibre.net