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PM on hand for $500m Hawaiki Cable’s symbolic sod-turning

Rich List backers confident of turning profit within five years as they take on the 50% Spark-owned Southern Cross Cable.

Wed, 23 Nov 2016

State of the kiwi cables

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  • The Southern Cross Cable, built for $1.3b ($1.8b in today’s money) and launched in 2001, is New Zealand’s only major broadband connection to the outside world. It’s actually a twin system of cables, forming a figure 8 between Sydney, Auckland, Hawaii and

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