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Scoop Images: From There To Here - NZ Plugs In
The commissioning of the Southern Cross Cable today marks the beginning of a new phase in the development of the internet in NZ. Bandwidth between NZ and the Internet backbone in the US has been increased by 120 fold as a result of the cable.
For more information see...
TELECOM
- Dawn
Of A New Technological Age For New Zealand
SOUTHERN
CROSS - All
Systems Go for Light-Up of Southern Cross
Images from Southern Cross Cables follow...
FROM THERE...
(18 April 2000) On American Soil: Southern Cross lands at Nedonna Beach, Oregon.
...TO HERE
(5 September 1999) The Southern Cross cable is pulled into position as it is landed at Takapuna Beach, Auckland from the CS Innovator.
Southern Cross Cable Network on
world map
Alastair Thompson
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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