Facebook Inc. and Google owner Alphabet Inc. will partner with a little-known Chinese company to build a ultrafast internet cable between Los Angeles and Hong Kong, the latest sign of its U.S. backers’ insatiable appetite for bandwidth.
The 12,800-kilometer Pacific Light Cable Network would use new fiber-optic technology to support the region’s highest-capacity route, according to TE Connectivity Ltd., the U.S. company under contract to build the link. TE says it expects to launch the system in 2018.
Funding the project along with the U.S. tech giants is a new Hong Kong company called Pacific Light Data Communication Co.
