Southern Cross NEXT Touches Down At Takapuna Beach By Sara Barker June 29, 2021 Auckland’s Takapuna Beach is now the official landing point for a new submarine cable, which is being called ‘the largest capacity express route to ever land in New Zealand’. Partners Spark and Southern Cross Cables celebrated the high-capacity NEXT (SX NEXT) cable’s [...]
Vodafone NZ, Spark, Telstra Launch Fibre Cable Connecting Sydney With Hamilton By Telecompaper November 5, 2020 The Tasman Global Access (TGA) fibre optic network has launched the first direct connection between Sydney and Hamilton. The launch is expected to offer additional resilience to New Zealand’s telecommunications infrastructure and increases the amount of capacity available to be [...]
Telstra and Spark Ink Deal for New Tasman Cable By Rob O'Neill, New Zealand Reseller News October 1, 2019 Spark and its fellow Southern Cross Cable shareholders have inked agreements and received regulatory approval for Telstra to become a 25 per cent shareholder. Telstra will also become an anchor customer of the new Southern Cross [...]
Paperwork for Southern Cross Next Cable Build Signed Off By Chris Duckett, ZDNet October 1, 2019 Southern Cross has gained the regulatory approvals needed to move into the construction phase for its Next cable between Australia and the United States. The 13,483 kilometre cable is set to cost $300 million and is designed to carry [...]
Tonga Has Cable Connection to Outside World Restored By Chris Duckett, ZDNet February 3, 2019 Tonga's two-week period without a working subsea cable to Fiji has ended. The cable had originally fallen over on January 20, and a second fault was subsequently found; however, RadioNZ reported on Saturday that the connection to the main island [...]
By Peter Dinham, IT Wire July 27, 2017 New Zealand’s largest telco Spark has completed an upgrade to the Nelson-Levin inter-island cable link across the Cook Strait which it says provides improved resiliency. The Nelson-to-Levin link is one of New Zealand’s three marine cables carrying data traffic between the North and South Islands; two of [...]