Four U.S. and Japanese companies seeking to become the “carriers’ carrier” will construct an underwater telecommunications cable between the two countries, the firms announced Thursday in Tokyo.
Pacific Crossing (PC-1), a 20,000-km fiber optic cable project, will be the first privately owned and operated underwater cable network crossing the Pacific, said Gary Winnick, joint chairman of Global Crossing Ltd.
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