Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

On 07/24/2012 10:02 AM, James Knott wrote:
> webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> > That underwater cable network is used for both phone and Internet 
> > communication, since phone systems not seem to be converted to 
> > digital to go through the cables to give more "lines" of 
> > communication between countries
>
> ????
>
> Are analog trunks still in use anywhere?  The phone system has been 
> digital for many years, long before there was an Internet. It'd have 
> to be an extremely old cable to require analog trunks. Anything 
> running over fibre would most certainly be digital.
They still have the cables and they are used.  Mostly they are used as 
digital trunk lines, but not every one has been converted do to their 
age.  The expense of laying a new fiber cable across a large body of 
ocean/sea is something that slows up the process of many parts of the 
world getting the better/faster connections.  The poorer the country, or 
the less number of potential users of the service, the longer it will 
take for the giant communication companies to spend the type of money 
needed to give these users the type of service many of us enjoy.  Europe 
has a better broadband system than most of the USA does.  I saw a 
program for places like the Netherlands and other European countries 
where they have a very large section of their country with fiber to the 
home and they have many different companies to choose from for 
broadband.  With that large competition for the broadband market, their 
Internet prices for 50 MB/s bandwidth is lower than my area of the USA 
for a 5 to 10 MB/s access.  We have just two options.  Cable modem 
service or a DSL service.  We pay $50+ a month for either.  On some 
science TV programming, they showed services for as little as $15 a 
month for the same services.  It all comes down to how good is their 
trunk system and how the marketing controls over those trunk lines are 
regulated.   For countries like New Zealand, they have to rely on a 
limited trunk cable on the ocean floor.  I would wonder if it was 
possible to run a trunk line from their nation to Australia.  Would it 
give them more access, or is Australia using the same trunk cable system 
as well.

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