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BY LAURIE MILLER
PARTNERSHIPS AND PROACTIVITY ARE THE KEYS TO ENDURING SUCCESS Southern Cross Cables owns a major telecommunications cable network between Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and across the South Pacific to the United States of America that is estimated to provide more than 60% of all internet connectivity out of Australia and New Zealand. Southern Cross has recently embarked on the Southern Cross NEXT project. On taking up the role of Southern Cross CEO, Laurie Miller shares with us his thoughts on the market and key components of Southern Cross’ success.
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lobal communities depend on technology. Perhaps this has never been truer than in the modern age. As peoples lives and societies move ever more into a digital landscape, technology’s importance only becomes ever more critical. After all, people all over the world fundamentally rely on ‘connectivity’, and with that growing demand, comes a need to establish robust infrastructure to support it now and moving forward into the future. This is not a journey you can do alone. The recent outage in Tonga (Daniel Victor, 2019) made