Facebook and Google Fund Subsea Cables to Link Singapore to U.S.
- Move comes after scrapped plans to connect U.S. to Hong Kong
- Set to increase transpacific capacity by 70%, Facebook says
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Facebook Inc. is funding two new transpacific subsea cables linking Singapore to the western coast of the U.S., with Alphabet Inc.’s Google also participating in one of the projects, intended to improve internet infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region.
Connecting Singapore to Indonesia and North America, the projects will be done in collaboration with local partners including XL Axiata Tbk PT and Singapore-based Keppel Corp. The pair of transpacific conduits, which Facebook says will expand capacity across the ocean by 70%, come in the wake of a similar project linking Hong Kong to the U.S. getting canceled in August following objections from the Trump administration.