<div dir="ltr">For those that like a bit of cable history (I do).  I've also got some of the original minutes...<div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Red_Line">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Red_Line</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 July 2017 at 10:56, John Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaedwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">jaedwards@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Solomon Islands is part of the Commonwealth, like Australia. Pacific islands have historically been strategic locations.<div><br></div><div>Military have always been keen on having their comms run through controlled territories. </div><div><br></div><div>WW1 telegraphs to Australia went London => Capetown => Cocos Islands => Freemantle => Adelaide  => Sydney so that they did not have to traverse an enemy controlled land. That's right, there was a submarine landing station at Grange near Adelaide, then the Sydney/Melbourne path was terrestrial.</div><div><br></div><div>You can imagine how the risk analysis starts to stack up for defence advisors if there's an outside chance they might have a future issue with the comms vendor's major investor.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><br></div><div>John</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 27 July 2017 at 15:06, Mark Newton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newton@atdot.dotat.org" target="_blank">newton@atdot.dotat.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">A submarine cable connecting Sydney to the Solomon Islands is being refused a landing permit in Sydney because it’s being built by Huawei.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-refuses-to-connect-to-undersea-cable-built-by-chinese-company-20170726-gxj9bf.html" target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/federal-<wbr>politics/political-news/austra<wbr>lia-refuses-to-connect-to-<wbr>undersea-cable-built-by-chines<wbr>e-company-20170726-gxj9bf.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>So, uh, don’t do that then, hey?</div><span class="m_6553162996144481899HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>  - mark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><br></div></div><span class="">______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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