Chile, in partnership with Google, is launching the Humboldt Cable System, the first fiber-optic submarine cable connecting South America with Asia and Oceania. Stretching about 15,000 kilometers, it will connect Valparaiso, Chile, to Sydney, Australia, and then extend to. The Antarctica Cable initiative aims to build a fiber optic submarine cable system between the Magallanes Region and Chilean Antarctica, particularly from the city of Punta Arenas or from the city of Puerto Williams, and the Chilean Permanent Bases, located in the South Shetland Islands and the. Humboldt Cable is a planned fiber optic submarine communications cable that will connect Chile with Australia, becoming the first-ever link between South America and the Asia-Pacific region. These projects offer opportunities to U. Other South American countries, such as Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil are also expected to benefit. Google reportedly invested somewhere between $300 million and $550 million in the. But what is complicated is the country being mired in a geopolitical crossfire between Japan and China Telecom in Chile has come a long way since its privatisation in 1980—having the most sophisticated and well-developed infrastructure in Latin America. Over the years, the country has emphasised. Chilean President Gabriel Borich delivered a speech on the construction of submarine fiber optic cable at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit on November 15, 2023, in San Francisco, California. Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC) 4.