Facebook invests in Asia Pacific Gateway underwater internet cable
Baku, July 6 (AZERTAC). Facebook has invested in a 10,000km (6,214 mile) Asian undersea cable project.
The Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) is designed to improve internet speeds for citizens and businesses in the region.
The cable will run directly from Malaysia to South Korea and Japan, with links branching off to other countries.
Facebook said the move would support efforts to boost membership in what was already one of its fastest growing markets.
The project to construct and maintain APG is funded by a group that includes two large Chinese internet service providers, China Telecom and China Unicom.
The fibre-optic cable will help the countries send and receive data to North America faster, according to consortium leader Time Dotcom.
But the news was offset by a later Nielsen study suggesting the network was enjoying rapid growth in Asia.
It indicated that the number of Japan-based visitors to the site using PCs had more than doubled during the year to May, totalling 17.2 million people that month.
It also suggested the firm was enjoying rapid growth in South Korea, adding there was scope for even bigger gains.
Google announced in 2008 that it would invest in a $300m undersea cabling system called Unity between Asia and the US.
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