Cable To Connect NZ To S. America & Antarctica CloserCable To Connect NZ To S. America & Antarctica CloserBy Tom Pullar-Strecker, Stuff.co.nzDecember 20,2021The Chilean government has selected a company chaired by the chief executive of New Zealand founded company Hawaiki as its partner for a proposed subsea internet cable that would be designed to connect Chile, Australia and New Zealand. The proposed Humboldt cable, which would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, could also potentially enable the first ultrafast broadband connection to Antarctica, which currently relies on satellite communications. Chilean government infrastructure fund Fondo de Infraestructura said the 14,810 kilometre cable would run between Valparaiso in Chile and Sydney, where it would connect with other cable systems to Asia. Galasso could not confirm whether the Humboldt cable was likely to run to Auckland, near where Hawaiki’s existing trans-Pacific cable comes ashore, or to Invercargill to connect directly with Hawaiki Nui. The Chilean Government initially contemplated building an internet cable between South America and Asia with Chinese support, before amending that plan last year, reportedly in the wake of lobbing by former US Secretary of State Mike Pompei against that plan.

Source: Stuff December 20, 2021 15:22 UTC