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I don't know much about the pipes actually, but I do believe a new one is being constructed. That said, I am curious to know the answer to this question too. I

• Schwolop 14y ago
  Allow me some time to find the statistics again on this, but from what I've gathered following the NBN debate for a few years now: No. The pipes are more than double our current requirements and growing faster than requirements do due to some funny incentive scheme. Total capacity: ~2TB/s [1], but the PPC-1 line has potential to add another 2.5TB/s. The others are being upgraded too [2]. "Currently, Australia has a theoretical 5637734.4Mbit/s of transpacific bandwidth, however lit capacity is much less."[3] "The total international capacity in use for the Australian market in 2009 is estimated to be around 300 gigabits per second."[4] References: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Australia#Submarine_cables http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Australia... [2] http://www.itnews.com.au/News/157753,ppc-1-delivers-more-speed-than-expected.aspx http://www.itnews.com.au/News/157753,ppc-1-delivers-more-spe... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Australia#International_connectivity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Australia#Internati... [4] http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/nbn#nbn_faq http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/nbn#nbn_faq (See section 5.7 - "Does Australia have the international capacity to provide every customer with 100 megabit internet?")