Facebook and Google are planning two new undersea internet cables to connect South East Asia to North America.The project with regional telecoms companies aims to supply faster internet to Singapore and Indonesia.This comes after Facebook withdrew three projects to connect the US to Hong Kong with similar cables, following government concerns over spying.
The cables require regulatory approval from the national governments involved.“Named Echo and Bifrost, those will be the first two cables to go through a new diverse route crossing the Java Sea, and they will increase overall subsea capacity in the trans-Pacific by about 70%,” Kevin Salvadori, Facebook vice president of network investments, told Reuters news agency.The cables will be the first to directly connect North America to the main parts of Indonesia, Facebook added.
News Source: BBC News
