China Unicom replaces fiber optic cable
China Unicom Group, one of China's major telecommunications operators, has revealed plans for the construction of a nearly 3,000-kilometer-long submarine optical fiber cable, which will span from Hong Kong to Sihanoukville in southern Cambodia. Recently, the first new global carrier "Large Effective Area Fiber" (LEAF) (ITU-T standard code G. The proposed EMA (Europe-Middle East-Asia) cable would connect Hong Kong to China's island. Jointly invested by leading regional carriers and industry partners such as China Unicom, ALC will serve as a critical subsea backbone. Chinese state-owned telecom firms, China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, are developing a $500 million undersea fiber-optic internet cable network that would link Asia, the Middle East and Europe to rival a similar US-backed project, Reuters reported, citing four people involved in the.
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