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China Unicom Broadband Installs Fiber Optic Cable
China Unicom Group, one of China's major telecommunications operators, has revealed plans for the construction of a nearly 3,000-kilometer-long submarine optical fiber cable, which will span from Hong Kong to Sihanoukville in southern Cambodia. Recently, the first new global carrier “Large Effective Area Fiber” (LEAF) (ITU-T standard code G. HK, hereinafter. Hengtong, in collaboration with China Unicom, has successfully deployed and begun operating China Unicom's first commercial hollow-core fiber optic cable line. This hollow-core fiber cable is now serving a dedicated line for a bank branch in Jiangsu, where it has been integrated into the live. State-owned telecom firms in China are developing a $500 million undersea fiber-optic internet cable network to compete with a similar US-backed project, according to four people involved in the deal.
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