Vocus’ newest subsea cable hit by fault
Vocus has confirmed a fault on its Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) system.
Vocus has confirmed a fault on its Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) system.
Vocus Group has announced a further restructure of its business, following a significant reshuffle at the start of the year.
Vocus has begun routing traffic via the new Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) after a major outage on the Sea-Me-We3 (SMW-3) subsea cable system.
The Northern Territory government will invest $8.5 million in an optical fibre connection between Darwin and the Tiwi Islands.
Vocus says that its new Australia Singapore Cable will be ready for service on 14 September.
Vocus Group managing director and CEO Kevin Russell says the telco is engaged in a “two to three year turnaround,” with the telco eliminating short-term incentives for its executive team.
Laying of the Australia Singapore Cable has been completed and electrical systems are now being installed and tested as part of a make-ready phase for the project.
Vocus has signed an agreement with Nokia’s Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to roll out the Coral Sea Cable system that will connect Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
The government has awarded Vocus a $136.6 million contract to build the Coral Sea Cable System.
Vocus has confirmed that a PABX systems of one of its customers was compromised and used in an attempt at international toll fraud that flooded the Triple Zero emergency service.
Kevin Russell has been appointed Vocus Group CEO and managing director.
Vocus Group has decided against selling its New Zealand business, announcing today that it has “ceased all discussions with interested parties in the sale process”.
Vocus, whose brands include iPrimus, Dodo and Commander, will compensate a number of its fibre to the node (FTTN) and fibre to the basement (FTTB) customers who were sold NBN services with maximum speeds that their lines were not capable of achieving.
Vocus has for the first time released data on its total share of the NBN market. The telco said that as of the end of 2017 it had captured 8.8 per cent of the market, up from 7.4 per cent at the end of 2016.
Vocus is upgrading its domestic network infrastructure ahead of the completion of the Australia Singapore Cable (ASC).