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		<title>Pacnet joins Pacific Fibre to build Trans-Pacific Subsea Cable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to release this news
The Pacific Fibre cable is estimated to cost US$400 million and will deliver much needed network capacity between Australia, New Zealand and the US
SYDNEY, 28 July 2010 – Pacnet, Asia’s leading provider of telecommunication services, and Pacific Fibre Limited today announced plans to jointly build the Pacific Fibre cable, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pacificfibre.net/press-release/pacnet-joins-pacific-fibre-to-build-trans-pacific-subsea-cable/</link>
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		<title>Seasoned Investors and Directors Strengthen Pacific Fibre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Press Release today.
A group of seasoned investors have thrown their weight behind trans-pacific data cable company Pacific Fibre.  They join a strong founding team including Sam Morgan, Sir Stephen Tindall and Rod Drury.
Mark Rushworth, former ihug CEO and Vodafone marketing director has been appointed full-time CEO and former Fairfax chief executive officer David Kirk has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pacificfibre.net/press-release/seasoned-investors-and-directors-strengthen-pacific-fibre/</link>
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		<title>Pacific Fibre at SubOptic 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Rushworth, John Humphrey and Laurent DuPlantie represented Pacific Fibre in Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan last week for the SubOptic submarine industry conference.  It’s the key technical conference, held only every three years and everyone who is anyone in the industry (from over 120 countries) was there. The team met many of them, including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pacificfibre.net/press-release/pacific-fibre-at-suboptic-2010/</link>
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		<title>Pull the plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sam noticed what happens when you uncap internet plans and international bandwidth is expensive &#8230;
Big users force out Big Time
Telecom has called time on its all-you-can-eat Big Time broadband plan as it struggles to manage traffic demand created by the plan.
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		<link>http://blog.pacificfibre.net/demand-side/pull-the-plans/</link>
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		<title>Google TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is lots of awareness out there that there is a problem with the demand side of Fibre to the Home (FTTH). Why will people pay extra to connect to super high speed services?  In many countries overseas the &#8216;tripleplay&#8217; of Internet, Voice and TV is required to get consumers connected.
The question, for say New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pacificfibre.net/demand-side/google-tv/</link>
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		<title>The emerging disruptive players</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Pacific Fibre we see the relentless rise of end-user demand for capacity, and are working to help the industry by unlocking the international bottleneck that we see now, and most certainly see in the future.
We are, however, relying on the rest of the industry to provide us with that demand, and the infrastructure between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pacificfibre.net/uncategorized/the-emerging-disruptive-players/</link>
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		<title>How much we are disadvantaged</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our driving motivation for Pacific Fibre is a sense of frustration, of being left behind. This chart from the OECD Broadband Portal shows one measure of that.

There are others &#8211; one favorite is this spreadsheet which rather cruelly shows how many days it would take to hit the limit at the fastest advertised speeds for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pacificfibre.net/uncategorized/how-much-we-are-disadvantaged/</link>
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		<title>The demand for capacity just keeps on rising &#8211; exponentially</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
A compelling chart from NBNco CEO Mike Quigley from a presentation (PDF) he gave to Infrastructure Partners Australia. There is more in the Computerworld article.
This chart shoiws the growing demand for broadband capacity, all of which needs to be accommodated by infrastructure within the country that the NBN is providing, but much of which also needs to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pacificfibre.net/uncategorized/the-demand-for-capacity-just-keeps-on-rising-exponentially/</link>
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		<title>Good luck and God Speed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great quote from iPrimus CEO Ravia Bhatia in an excellent* article on Computerworld:
&#8220;Demand is rising at a rate of four to five per cent a month from end users. That&#8217;s a stupendous number. By the time the proposed cable is ready in 2013, the existing cables will be close to saturation&#8221;
&#8220;No matter how much capacity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pacificfibre.net/media-response/good-luck-and-god-speed/</link>
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		<title>NBR: Telecom exec: Pacific Fibre needs a geography lesson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NBR published another critical headline today. Chris Keall was the writer again.
Telecom exec: Pacific Fibre needs a geography lesson
Chris spoke with Telecom Wholesale chief Matt Crocket:
His message, in short, is that Southern Cross has a load of unlit fibre, and has been reducing prices by around 20% per annum for the past few years. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pacificfibre.net/media-response/nbr-telecom-exec-pacific-fibre-needs-a-geography-lesson/</link>
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