Joining the spate of recent submarine cable projects is Telstra. The Telco giant has announced that it’s embarking on a 9120km fibre cable deployment from Australia to Hawaii with the commencement of the project scheduled for this coming Thursday.
Stretching from Sydney’s Tamarama Beach across the Pacific to Hawaii, Telstra says the new Telecommunications Cable will alleviate the ever growing bottlnecks between Australia and the United States. The new link is slated to carry 1.28Terabits (1.280 Gigabits) of data per second, however Telstra adds that it’s not expected to create faster or cheaper Broadband Internet services as a result.
Kate McKenzie from Telstra wholesale said the new Australia-US connection would not lead to increased broadband speeds, or to a fall in prices.
The cable project was aimed at increasing bandwidth not speed she said, adding it would be “unrealistic” to think that, after the expenditure required to lay the cable, broadband prices would be lower.
Source: news.com.au article
