A new consortium appears to lay another massive cable

A horde of big names has come together to build a high-capacity cable system that will connect Maruyama and Shima in Japan with Los Angeles in the USA and Daet in the Philippines.
So who is in the consortium; PCCW Global, Amazon, Facebook, NTT Communications, PLDT and SoftBank. Scheduled to be ready for service by early 2020, the Jupiter Cable will be approximately 14,000 km in length and has a design capacity of more than 60 Tbps.
“The demand for bandwidth in the Pacific region continues