More undersea cable wars brewing in India

Thu Dec 23 13:28:03 UTC 2004

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:16:09 +0000, Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> >
> > .. and meanwhile, the best part of 32 STM-1s worth of fiber is lying dark ...
> 
> If they lit /all/ of the fibre, don't you think it'll all be used very very quickly?

God knows there's enough demand for it.  Only, bandwidth prices are
artificially inflated because of this shortage, and this would make
prices drop SHARPLY

> 
> What will they do then? Lay more fibre next year? :)
> 

FALCON (another FLAG cable) and SEA-ME-WE4 are both coming into India
by mid to end 2005, as are a few smaller cables to places like
Singapore

--srs

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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)