Facebook, Google to lay subsea cables between U.S. and Southeast Asia

In this article FB GOOGL The vessel used to lay one of Google’s other subsea cables. Google Facebook and Google are planning to lay two huge subsea cables that will link the West Coast of the U.S. to Singapore and Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and home to a growing number of smartphone users. The “Echo” and “Bifrost” transpacific cables will increase the data capacity between the regions by 70%, while also increasing internet reliability, Facebook said on Monday. While Facebook is investing in both cables, Google is only investing in Echo . The cost of the projects, which are…