On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
LOL Nothing that money can't fix. Google is purported to be building a pacific cable of their own. If your local telco doesn't get their paws on it you just might get a break.
Yep, heard about a week ago, sadly though one of the partners is one of the the rip-off merchants, but i'm sure Google will make sure the price is much fairer than what we have to pay now if it goes ahead.
What we need to see is an alternative cable route, all routes but a couple go to the US, one goes to NZ then US, one goes to HK then US, what I'd love to see is a direct link into EU, via HK or via another new submarine cable entering around Indian Ocean, when the yanks realise we have a choice, then maybe they'll lower the costs, at present there is no incentive
for them to stop ripping us off. -- Cheers Res
