The people and businesses that rely on the SeaMeWe-4 underwater cable for Internet connections cannot be happy. Although repairs following a December 19th incident were more or less completed on schedule, a new break has screwed things up yet again.
Report: Google Backing Another Undersea Cable Project
Something called the Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC) is coming into being, and Google’s one of several companies that’s behind it, according to a new report. The new undersea fiber optic project should tie into another Google-related cable, the transpacific Unity.
Google Connected To New Undersea Cable
Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, KDDI Corporation, Pacnet, and SingTel, along with one other corporation, are building an undersea fiber optic cable connecting America and Japan. The cable should cost around $300 million, and the last member of the six-company consortium is Google.
Rumor: Google Planning Giant Undersea Cable?
Grahame Lynch of CommsDay reports (my emphasis):