Work on a landing station in Northland for a 14,000km internet cable system is on track.
Northland business McKay won a multimillion-dollar contract with Hawaiki Submarine
Cable LP to build a cable landing station in Mangawhai Heads which should start operating by June next year.
The $400 million Hawaiki submarine cable system will link New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii and the United States and could expand to several South Pacific islands and could mean faster and cheaper access to the internet.
Under the contract, McKay is constructing the cable landing station at
Bream Tail Farm and work includes civil, building, and electrical works, and building an uninterrupted power supply and heating and ventilation systems.
Stretching from under the sand dunes north of the Surf Club inland via Bream Tail Farm, the 2km of underground pipes allow the submarine cable to connect to the land-based fibre network at their Cable Landing Station at Cove Rd.