N.Z. cable link
NZPA-AAP Tokyo New Zealand is to have a stake in a SNZI2O4 million trans-Pacific optical fibre communications cable linking Japan, Guam, and Hawaii to the United States. Japan’s Kokusai Denshin Denwa Company, Ltd, (HDD), American Telephone and Telgraph Company (ATT), and 20 other private and public telecommunications firms in eight other countries will sign an agreement to lay the cable, along with another linking Guam and the Philippines, said KDD in a statement. The agreement was expected to be signed in Hawaii on January 22 after approval by Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.
The Japan-United States project will involve 13,200 km of optic fibre cable and be funded mainly by KDD (22 per cent) and ATT (56 per cent). Among the other contributors, the statement lists the Postmaster General of New Zealand (Mr Hunt), along with British, Australian, Canadian, German, . Korean, Philippine, and Taiwanese Government corporations and private firms. The cable is expected to be working in late 1988. The second project, without New Zealand participation, involves laying 2800 km of cable between Guam and the Philippines at a cost of SNZ2I4M. The cable is expected to he workiflfc; by April, 1989, KDO said. J “
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