OMEN
02-14-2008, 01:59 AM
Auckland lines company Vector has announced to the New Zealand stock exchange that it intends to extend its existing fibre-optic broadband network in Auckland by more than 300 kilometres.
The extension will connect Auckland city, Henderson, the North Shore and Papakura. Vector already has an extensive network in Auckland and has been actively laying fibre on the North Shore for schools and council facilities. The company has long been viewed as a dark horse in the network backbone market, but has played its broadband cards close to its chest.
Vector says it intends to connect the network extension to twenty-nine Telecom exchanges. This will provide direct and open access to Telecom's unbundled copper local loop for Internet service providers, looking to service customers under the new telecommunications regulatory regime introduced by the government last year.
The company says the extension will remove network performance constraints that service providers seeking access to Telecom's unbundled local loop would otherwise face.
Forming a ring around the metropolitan Auckland area, the extension will connect forty of Vector's electricity sub-stations. This will give the company the ability to set up state-of-the-art network management.
Vector has already signed a long-term agreement with mobile and fixed-line telco Vodafone as an anchor customer for the network extension.
While newly-appointed Vector chief executive Simon Mackenzie wouldn't reveal the cost of the 300km network, it is believed the net capital investment will be modest with no gearing required. The company will announce its half-year results today, Thursday.
Fairfax Media
The extension will connect Auckland city, Henderson, the North Shore and Papakura. Vector already has an extensive network in Auckland and has been actively laying fibre on the North Shore for schools and council facilities. The company has long been viewed as a dark horse in the network backbone market, but has played its broadband cards close to its chest.
Vector says it intends to connect the network extension to twenty-nine Telecom exchanges. This will provide direct and open access to Telecom's unbundled copper local loop for Internet service providers, looking to service customers under the new telecommunications regulatory regime introduced by the government last year.
The company says the extension will remove network performance constraints that service providers seeking access to Telecom's unbundled local loop would otherwise face.
Forming a ring around the metropolitan Auckland area, the extension will connect forty of Vector's electricity sub-stations. This will give the company the ability to set up state-of-the-art network management.
Vector has already signed a long-term agreement with mobile and fixed-line telco Vodafone as an anchor customer for the network extension.
While newly-appointed Vector chief executive Simon Mackenzie wouldn't reveal the cost of the 300km network, it is believed the net capital investment will be modest with no gearing required. The company will announce its half-year results today, Thursday.
Fairfax Media