ASIA-PACIFIC FIBER-OPTIC CABLE

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

SERVICE BEGINS ON $332-MILLION ASIA-PACIFIC FIBER-OPTIC CABLE
 
     NEW YORK -- Tomorrow at 8:01 p.m. EDT, AT&T along with 42 other
international carriers will activate service on a new undersea
fiber-optic cable system linking Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong,
Taiwan and Japan.


     AT&T, largest U.S. stakeholder in the new Asia-Pacific cable
(APC), said the US$332 million cable system spans 4,650 miles, and
raises the number of undersea fiber-optic systems in the Pacific Rim
to six.


     The other systems include cables linking mainland U.S. and
Hawaii; Guam, the Phillipines and Taiwan; Hawaii, Guam and Japan;
Canada, the U.S. and Japan; and Hawaii Japan and Korea.
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