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Google to fund $1B for internet subsea cables

Plans to construct several new fiber-optic internet subsea cables that will improve Hawaii’s internet reliability and connectivity, were announced by Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke and Google’s Asia Pacific Network Planning and Acquisition Director, Benji Robinson on Tuesday.

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Google Asia Pacific Director Benji Robinson speaks at the Entrepeneurs Sandbox in Kakaako.
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Google Asia Pacific Director Benji Robinson speaks on Tuesday with Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke and Consul General Yoshinori Kodama of the Consulate General of Japan in Honolulu.
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Google Asia Pacific director Benji Robinson and Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke unveiled plans for the $1 billion construction of new fiber-optic internet subsea cables connecting Hawaii with Japan, the continental U.S., the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam on Tuesday.
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Google Asia Pacific Director Benji Robinson holds a sample of the cable as he speaks.
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Google Asia Pacific director Benji Robinson and Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, who holds a sample of the cable.

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