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TIME DotCom and Facebook Invest In Massive Undersea Internet Cable Project

Posted by timothy on from the also-recovering-cold-war-alien-artifacts dept.

MojoKid writes "This week, TIME dotCom (out of Malaysia) has entered into a construction and maintenance agreement of the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) submarine cable system connecting Malaysia to Korea and Japan. The APG is a 10,000 km international fibre optic cable system that will link Malaysia to Korea and Japan with seven branches to other Asian countries. The cable system is scheduled to be ready in quarter three of 2014. TIME is leading up the process, but Facebook as well as a few others are joining in by combining $450 million to the cause."

5 of 94 comments (clear)

  1. Financing? by rootus-rootus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, where is the Dentist?

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  2. Paging Neal Stephenson? by Gothmolly · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't I read a book about this?

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  3. Look on the bright side. by jd · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they want to move all Facebook traffic off the regular Internet and build a separate infrastructure for it, maybe we can get all the Facebook users to migrate entirely over to Internet 3 and leave everyone else alone.

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  4. Re:Investing in wireless by msauve · · Score: 4, Funny

    Without wires, obviously. How hard can it be to not install wires?

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  5. Re:unh-un by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and git off mah lawn?

    No, you are welcome on my lawn as long as your owner picks up after you.

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