If you haven't heard, kordia may be building a cable that runs from new zealand to sydney which will connect to a new cable to go to the usa. it could be a competitor to the southern cross cable.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10564751

so will this new cable actually bring higher data caps? if so, anyone estimate how big the caps would be?

seeing as though telecom owns part of the southern cross cable which would be a competitor, do you think kordia will block telecom from using the new cable and only allow other isp's like orcon, slingshot etc to use it? i mean why would you want to let a competitor like telecom who partly own the southern cross cable use your new cable?
 if i were kordia i would go look for an overseas investor to help fund this cable and start constructing it early next year seen as though the australian leg of the cable is going to get underway soon. because i don't think the government has the money to help fund it.

this new cable being built could be avoided if the southern cross cable lowered it's data prices because it has spare capacity to do so, but i guess because there's no competition it is not going to be kind.
 if i owned the southern cross cable i would want new zealand to be part of the web 2.0 world so web hosts could setup in new zealand and offer 10,000GB of monthly bandwidth like overseas web hosts do and new zealand could host a large site like facebook even, but currently web hosts in new zealand can't do this because of expensive data costs.