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Following Angola Cables' injection of $200-million to build a submarine cable from Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean, to Brazil, the Antonio Nunes-led company would now invest a further $100-million in a new undersea cable connecting Latin America to the US.
The group, as part of a consortium, was building the South Atlantic Cable System, a 6 000 km four-fibre, 40 Tb/s cable linking Angola to Brazil, which was expected to be fully operational by the end of 2015.
Now Angola Cables, in partnership with Brazil-based Algar Telecom, Uruguay-based Antel and US-based Google, would deploy a six-fibre, 10 556 km cable spanning Santos and Fortaleza, in Brazil, to Boca Raton, in Florida, US.
The consortium contracted TE Connectivity SubCom as the provider for the two-year project that would result in a 64 Tb/s increase in the overall bandwidth of existing subsea cable system capacity when completed at the end of 2016, said Nunes.
Construction on the project would start immediately.
With Latin America’s rapid-growing Internet penetration and the connection of nearly 300-million people, the consortium aimed to support the capacity needed to sustain the current and future needs of Internet users in the region, the consortium members said in a joint statement on Monday.