Facebook and Google plan new undersea cables to connect southeast Asia and America

Facebook is planning two undersea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia and North America in a bid to boost internet connection capacity between the regions. The cables, named Echo and Bifrost, will be the first to directly connect North America to some of the main parts of Indonesia. In collaboration with Google and other telecommunication companies, the project aims to increase connectivity for the central and eastern provinces of the world’s fourth most populous country. “Named Echo and Bifrost, those will be the first two cables to go through a new diverse route crossing the Java Sea and they will increase…