Google is launching itself into ever new sectors: from self-driving cars to wearable computers (starting with the famous glasses)… and now (but actually it's not the first time) also in the submarine cable business.
Internet traffic continues to increase and Google knows it best of all, so much so that it is concerned with building the infrastructure necessary to transport the gazillion bits that travel along the planet's electronic highways.
Now, together with 5 other Asian telecommunications companies, it is preparing to lay (the contractor will be NEC) 9.000 kilometers of the most capable fiber optic cable ever installed: it will connect Japan (and then other Asian countries) and the Pacific coast of the USA. The investment foreseen by Mountain View is 300 million dollars.
The project – aptly named Faster – will begin soon and installation will be completed in the first half of 2016. The other companies are Japanese mobile operator KDDI, China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Malaysia Global Transit and Singapore SingTel.
