Hawaiki Cable has signed New Zealand’s fourth-largest ISP, Trustpower as a customer for Internet connectivity to the US, giving Trustpower its first directly contracted link to the USA.

Trustpower has also added a point of presence in the US, in Hillsboro, Oregon

Trustpower CEO, Vince Hawksworth said the company needed to contract directly with asset owners for capacity as its customers connected to higher-speed plans and consumed more data.

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