Google to build super-fast US-Asia undersea cable

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Google has announced plans to build a new undersea cable called FASTER in partnership with five Asia-based telecom companies. Mashable reports that NEC, KDDI, China Telecom Global, SingTel, China Mobile International, and Global Transit are all part of the consortium. The cable will be capable of delivering speeds of up to 60 terabytes per second and will cost $300 million. It is scheduled to be completed by the second quarter of 2016.

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