{"id":1017899,"date":"2026-07-01T07:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017899"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:10:32","slug":"vocus-plans-343-million-sydney-melbourne-fibre-link-to-meet-ai-demand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/vocus-plans-343-million-sydney-melbourne-fibre-link-to-meet-ai-demand-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocus plans $343 million Sydney-Melbourne fibre link to meet AI demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie-backed Vocus plans to invest around A$500 million ($343.50 million) to build a fibre network route between Sydney and Melbourne to meet the rising AI-driven data centre demand, the company said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The route, which Vocus said will \u200cbe \u2060the country&#8217;s \u2060first ducted long-haul network, will be ready by 2029 and create more than 1,000 jobs. Ducted networks carry fragile underground cables in protective conduits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie-backed Vocus plans to invest around A$500 million ($343.50 million) to build a fibre network route between Sydney and Melbourne to meet the rising AI-driven data centre demand, the company said on Tuesday. The route, which Vocus said will \u200cbe \u2060the country&#8217;s \u2060first ducted long-haul network, will be ready by 2029 and create more than 1,000 jobs. Ducted networks carry fragile underground cables in protective conduits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017918,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017899\/revisions\/1017918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}