“Consortium to build 14,000km undersea cable linking Asia and US”

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“Consortium to build 14,000km undersea cable linking Asia and US”

A consortium of six companies has been established to construct and maintain an undersea cable linking Japan, the Philippines and the United States.

Japan’s NTT Communications Corporation and SoftBank, US technology giants Facebook and Amazon, the Philippines’ PLDT, and Hong Kong’s PCCW Global recently signed an agreement to build the JUPITER optical submarine cable, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports.