Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Asia Netcom has announced plans to double, to 160Gbps, the capacity on the southern segment of its Pan-Asian submarine cable system, EAC which links Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines and Taiwan.
This will be Asia Netcoms' third incremental capacity expansion this year. Previous upgrades have already more than doubled the capacity on the northern segment of the EAC system.
According to a Telegeography report in April this year, the global bandwidth market is showing signs of improved health, with supply equilibrium and price stability being primary indicators of this trend. This has led many network operators, including Asia Netcom, to light additional wavelengths and fibre pairs on an as-needed basis.
"The trend forward as more sophisticated applications traverse undersea networks is the steady consumption of bandwidth. This is matched by the stabilising of prices in the region over the past few months," said Bill Barney, president and CEO, Asia Netcom
He added "We are confident that this is the upturn the industry has been waiting for."
We are seeing burgeoning demand on our undersea routes, and we are expanding quickly to meet that," added Wilfred Kwan, Asia Netcom's CTO.
The EAC system spans 19,500 km within Asia connecting Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong and soon, China.
NEC has been awarded the contract for the upgrade which will use NEC's DWDM submarine line terminal product. The upgrade is expected to be completed by the end of 2006.
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