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  Dial (or read) before you dig

  Cable workers map out telecoms networks

  By TechWorld staff | 20 June, 2011 09:33

  Tags: broadband, cables, construction, Internet cables, telecoms

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  Chinese 'driving ICT agenda' in Africa: Wikileaks

  The latest US cable released by Wikileaks scorns Chinese ICT companies doing business in Kenya as "re-colonising Africa" with "good and cheap" equipment, even if the after-sales service is described as s***.

  By Rodney Gedda | 02 March, 2011 11:23

  Tags: africa, African ICT, cables, China, Huawei, USA government, wikileaks

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  Aus network bandwidth doubled with $400m deal

  Raw network bandwidth out of Australia is set to get a two-fold increase with a new $US400 million undersea cable project announced in Sydney today.

  By Rodney Gedda | 28 July, 2010 14:36

  Tags: broadband, cables, fibre optic, pacific fibre, pacnet, submarine cables

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  Trans-Atlantic Internet cables may be filled by 2014

  Voracious Web surfers, e-mailers and downloaders will use up the trans-Atlantic cables that were overbuilt early in this decade within the next five years, forcing carriers to invest in new ones in a market that's become used to adding bandwidth cheaply, according to research company Telegeography.

  By Stephen Lawson | 23 June, 2009 05:18

  Tags: cables, internet, ocean cables, optical fibre

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  Asian carriers plan big regional cable network

  Eight of Asia's largest telecommunications carriers plan to jointly build a fiber optic cable that will interconnect the region's most important economies, they said Monday.

  By Martyn Williams | 26 May, 2009 07:58

  Tags: asia pacific, asia-pacific gateway, cables, China, fibre optic, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, taiwan, Thailand, vietnam

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  Undersea cable investments to grow despite recession

  A global recession has yet to change carriers' plans to increase their investments in submarine cables over the next two years, according to a new study from research firm TeleGeography.

  By Brad Reed | 01 May, 2009 08:30

  Tags: cables, global recession