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New Zealand offers a substantial communications infrastructure of which Manukau
reaps equal benefit. There is a range of telecommunications providers, who
are aligned with international companies such as Bell Atlantic, AT&T, British
Telecom, Sprint, and Cable & Wireless.
New Zealand is well linked internationally, and has a competitive, deregulated
market that has continually reduced the cost of national and international
tolls. Charges from New Zealand, particularly for high volume traffic, are
internationally competitive.
Due to New Zealand's focus on technology and its relative isolation on the
world map, the internet was embraced early and presently NZ has one of the
highest usage levels and web sites per capita in the world. Technologies such
as DSL and Adaptive Broadband (wireless) are commonly in use. If you are on
holiday here you will find cybercafes and internet access points everywhere,
even the smallest towns. Just ask the locals for the nearest one if you want
to pop off a quick email home.
Internet Service Providers
There is a choice of five national and more than 40 local Internet Service
Providers. There are a full range of Internet support services available,
including design, development and engineering.
Cable Systems
There are four international submarine cable systems, two fibre optic and two
co-axial cable, with terminal sites in New Zealand. The current project is
the Southern Cross fibre optic cable, which will span the Pacific ocean linking
Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii and the US mainland
and provide a total of 200 Gbit/s of capacity.
Satellite Systems
Satellite system links to and from New Zealand provide primary routes and alternative
international capacity to supplement cable capacity.
News & Media
If you would like to be informed about the day
to day news in NZ on a weekly basis, you may want to subscribe to Brian
Harmer 's WYSIWYG News, NZ's most well known electronic newspaper with
subscribers in dozens of countries around the world. It is also posted in soc.culture.new-zealand. You
can subscribe by adding yourself to the WYSIWYG News E-mail list at the Akiko
International web site.
Below: a variety of news and media related sites.
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