Google and five other Asian firms are building a cable under the Pacific Ocean, delivering high-speed internet.
The $300mn cable, named ‘Faster’, will connect the US with Japan, according to the consortium.
State-owned Chinese companies China Mobile and China Telecom,Japan’s KDDI, Singapore’s SingTel and Malaysia’s Global Transit have teamed with Google, to lay the cable, which will be operational by 2016.
"Faster is one of a few hundred submarine telecommunications cables connecting various parts of the world," said Woohyong Choi, chairman of the consortium's executive committee.
"These cables collectively form an important infrastructure that helps run global internet and communications.
"The Faster cable system has the largest design capacity ever built on the trans-Pacific route, which is one of the longest routes in the world."