[AusNOG] News: Minister Conroy contemplating Government-Funded undersea cable?

[Damian Guppy]

Is it just me or does $250m for a complete AU to US sub sea link seem a
little low?

--Damian

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Bob Woolley <boblobsta at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> "I've often said, if the international market doesn't improve, for $250
> million out of a budget of $40 billion dollars, I'll build an extra pipe
> between here and the US to drive prices down,"
> he told attendees of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
> conference in New York this week.
>
>
> So he is going to build a under-sea cable from New York to the US?
> This is our Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital
> Economy. Sigh.
>
> -Bob
>
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