Even as Pipe Networks partied in Sydney Thursday night to celebrate the launch of its PPC-1 trans-Pacific cable, the company was pressing Government for changes to proposed legislation to give it better access to interconnect facilities.

Internode has become the first customer to test Pipe Networks' new PPC-1 fibre-optic cable, ahead of its official launch and is promising to revise its access plans to reflect PPC-1's lower connection costs to the US.

Pipe Networks (ASX: PWK) has reported a 46 percent increase in after tax profit for the year ended 30 June 2009, to $10.5 million, including costs associated with construction of its submarine cable network between Sydney and Guam, PPC-1.

Pipe Networks has successfully transmitted light from Sydney to Guam across its just-installed PPC-1 submarine cable.