APNG (for "Australia Papua New Guinea") is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the

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linking Australia and Papua New Guinea. It has landing points in

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and

Port Moresby (; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New ...

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. It is an analogue coaxial copper cable with a capacity of 480 channels at 5 MHz each, giving a data rate of 16 Mbit/s. It has a total cable length of 897 km. It started operation in 1976 and has been replaced by the

APNG-2 The APNG-2 submarine communications cable was constructed to link Papua New Guinea directly to Australia and indirectly to New Zealand and the rest of the world, and has been in service from late 2006. The new cable is a collaboration between T ...

cable, in early 2006.

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{{Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean Australia–Papua New Guinea relations 1976 establishments in Australia 1976 establishments in Papua New Guinea