Just a little detour south and you can hook us Kiwi's into the cable too. We are also totally fed up with the telco's charging horrendous rates for international traffic. Because of this we New Zealanders enjoy the dishonor of paying some of the highest fees for broadband in the world. Save us too Google!

Once Google has girdled the world, then it'll be a short step to offer free everything (with small harmless ads along one side).

I'm glad you didn't say that.

But it sounds like a drop in the ocean to me.

? small ads alongside VoIP ?

I have enough trouble with the little voices inside my head already, without letting Google take them over.

That's a one heck of a long Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle !

Lexx

Worry yourself not. Of course Google will route the cable via New Zealand. In fact, the whole point of the cable is to prepare for their office move to a disused extinct volcano here as El Reg reported 18 months ago:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/08/you_only_search_twice/