[stephenr]

How exactly does the submarine cable connection affect things realistically? I’d have thought the point of contention for most people in Australia would be either the last mile with the boondoggle that is FttN or the distance to other countries. Does skipping a bit of terrestrial fibre backbone really make that much difference?

[dwd]

Brisbane is a 10ms ping away, Sydney is 20ms and 90% of the sites people use have a least a Sydney based CDN; but we can't let facts get in the way of real estate sales.

[stephenr]

That's what I thought.

[willemh]

Yeah, not much difference to the end user but I think the council are trying to attract businesses. That could be the good mix up the economy needs. The future will tell whether it works or not.