Update#43: New fibre lands in Australia

A special episode today covering the landmark arrival of the PPC-1, the first telco neutral submarine cable to be built for Australian broadband usage. 4,787km of cable rising out of the sea. It's like trainspotting for comms engineering geeks. The builders claim it's about competition, not capacity, and from what we've seen and heard today it seems like we're in for an exciting year of price drops and usage limit increases.