[110467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Northern Ireland undersea branch to be implemented
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin List-Petersen)
Tue Jan 6 01:03:04 2009
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:02:52 +0000
From: Martin List-Petersen <martin@airwire.ie>
To: Martin Hannigan <martin@theicelandguy.com>
In-Reply-To: <d99aaed40901052054r701edb3fkdab1f0442cd87cd8@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Martin Hannigan wrote:
> Hibernia has been busy.
>
> "THE COMMUNICATIONS minister Eamon Ryan and the North's Enterprise Minister
> Arlene Foster have announced the awarding of a £30 million (€32 million)
> contract to construct a new direct telecommunications link to North America
> that will benefit Northern Ireland and the Republic"
>
> http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0106/1230936699678.html
>
That's just a spur from the existing Hibernia Atlantic fibre that goes
from Halifax to Dublin. In my opinion, that should have been done from
the very beginning.
Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
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