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The United States plans to connect the archipelago American Samoa with Guam Island, as the Portal agency has learned. By connecting these two unincorporated U.S. territories, the modern telecommunications line could be extended to others as well 12 island states and dependencies the central region of the Pacific Ocean.
The details of the project, mentioned Central Pacific Cablewere shown to attendees at an industry conference in Singapore by developers Paul McCann and John Hibbard, two consultants who are experts in underwater cable routing. The consulting firm APTelecom is responsible for a feasibility study for the design and installation of underwater Internet cables, a process that usually takes a lot of time. between 3 and 5 yearsaccording to Portal sources.
Part of the funding could come from the World Bank as well as government agencies in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. A White House fact sheet released on September 25 after a meeting between the leaders of the Pacific island nations and President Joe Biden in Washington confirmed that the US Trade and Development Agency will take over initial expenditure of 3 million of dollars for the feasibility study of the cable.
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The note also contains an important detail about the configuration of the area that the project will cover, with the aim of “completing the triangle with the Hawaiian Islands,” starting from Guam and Samoa. The beneficiaries could be too Papua New GuineaSamoa, Tuvalu, Fiji, Nauruthe Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Cook IslandsWallis and Futuna (France) and Federated States of Micronesia.
According to Portal, the plan underscores competition between the US and China as part of the Biden administration’s promise to help the island nations defend themselves against attempts at “economic coercion” by Beijing. In fact, two years ago the US intervened to stop a Chinese company from building another undersea internet cable between the Pacific islands.
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