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Google Approved to Use US-Taiwan Portion of PLCN

Google Set to Use US-Taiwan Undersea Cable By Chris Chang, Taiwan News April 9, 2020 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved Google's plan to use a U.S.-Taiwan undersea telecommunications cable on Wednesday (April 9), but banned the section between the U.S. and Hong Kong. U.S. authorities allowed Google to operate [...]

Kieran Clark2020-04-09T10:58:00-04:00April 9th, 2020|Categories: Future Systems|Tags: FCC, Google, Hong Kong, national security, Pacific, PLCN, Taiwan, United States|

Google, Facebook to Activate PLCN Without Hong Kong

Google, Facebook to Activate Undersea Web Cable, Excluding China and Hong Kong By Joel Khalili, TechRadar February 7, 2020 Google and Facebook have filed to activate the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) between the US, the Philippines and Taiwan. The submarine internet cable network, announced in 2016, was originally billed as the first to connect [...]

Kieran Clark2020-03-19T20:12:04-04:00February 7th, 2020|Categories: Future Systems|Tags: China, Facebook, Google, Hong Kong, Philippines, PLCN, submarine cable, Taiwan|