[AusNOG] Solomon Islands loses landing rights for a cable in Sydney

[John Edwards]

Solomon Islands is part of the Commonwealth, like Australia. Pacific
islands have historically been strategic locations.

Military have always been keen on having their comms run through controlled
territories.

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.

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.

John



On 27 July 2017 at 15:06, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

> A submarine cable connecting Sydney to the Solomon Islands is being
> refused a landing permit in Sydney because it’s being built by Huawei.
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/
> australia-refuses-to-connect-to-undersea-cable-built-by-
> chinese-company-20170726-gxj9bf.html
>
> So, uh, don’t do that then, hey?
>
>   - mark
>
>
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