Google, Facebook, Hong Kong-based Pacific Light Data Communication Co and underseas cable provider SubCom announced the cable in 2016, calling it the first subsea cable directly connecting Hong Kong and the US. — Reuters
The US Justice Department is opposing a bid by Google, Facebook Inc and a Chinese entity to complete an undersea Internet cable between the US and Hong Kong, raising national security concerns for the project that runs out of temporary authority next month.
The high capacity fiber-optic cable running about 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) is intended to connect US Internet users to Asia and increase competition on the trans-Pacific data route, according to filings at the US Federal Communications Commission, where the companies in 2017 applied for permission to land the cable in the US.
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