back to article NZ-funded Hawaiki cable signs DRFortress for landing station

Australia and New Zealand got a small step closer to a third Pacific crossing, with submarine cable upstart Hawaiki signing DRFortress in Hawaii to operate its landing station. The on-again, off-again, on-again cable signed TE SubCom as its construction partner in 2013, but the project went into cold storage while the builders …

  1. OzBob

    Didn't Kim Dot Blob try and float this one 5 years ago?

    I guess his court hearing for extradition must be taking his focus at present.

  2. Youngone Silver badge
    Mushroom

    Yay! Competition

    The other reason its risky building a competing cable to New Zealand is that those who rule over us are very keen on incumbents, and have gutted industry regulators.

    It's not a coincidence that the Minister for Telecommunications has usually been known as the Minister for Telecom's Shareholders.

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