 The largest shareholder was OTC, Australia's international carrier and around 70 percent of the cable was manufactured in Australia.The Network was designed to have an operational life of 25 years, but became obsolete within only three years with the building of Jasuraus, although after decommissioning in 2005 the cable was cut near the Solomon Islands and relaid to form APNG-2 in 2006 connecting Sydney and Papua New Guinea, saving PNG around 80% of the cost of building a new cable and plant with the equipment from the Guam landing station being moved to PNG.The Tasman-2 cable (built in 1992) covered the distance of 2,000km with three fibre pairs, and joined Sydney and Auckland.