Telstra has rejected overtures to join a Google consortium planning new trans-Pacific telecom infrastructure.
Already underway with its own new link connecting Sydney with Hawaii, Telstra confirmed that it had met Google to discuss cable plans. It decided not alter its current strategy.
Telstra expects an upgrade and expansion of its Hybrid Fibre Coaxial network would cost possibly less than the $4.1 billion spend it has proposed for a major city fibre-to-the-node deployment.
Asia Netcom is in talks with Google, NTT, KDDI and Singapore Telecom about taking a commitment in its planned Pacific undersea cable project. Eyeing a year-end confirmation for arrangements, Asia Netcom CEO Bill Barney told CommsDay that all five players were looking to access new capacity between Asia and the US.
By Grahame Lynch
The choice of venue for the GSMA’s Mobile Asia Congress last week was fitting. Just as the GSM industry seems to constantly invent new superlatives, its Macau venue was suitably …. big.
In what may be her last major interview in the term of the current government, Communications Minister Helen Coonan has given her most revealing take yet on the challenges she has faced in the ministerial chair.
I’d hate to think how many times I’ve seen presentations at trade shows and vendor events where they trot out figures of how many computers there are in the developing world compared to mobile phones and then without missing a beat proclaim that the mobile will be the access device for these markets to get on the Net.
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