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HK Excluded from Google High Capacity Network Link...

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    HK Excluded from Google High Capacity Network Link...

    No clue what is behind this exclusion... this is the first I'm hearing about this and several links already exist / work. (List: https://www.ofca.gov.hk/en/industry_...tml#p3?noembed)

    Google agreed to operate a portion of the 8,000-mile Pacific Light Cable Network System between the United States and Taiwan, but not Hong Kong. Google and Facebook Inc (FB.O) helped pay for construction of the now completed telecommunications link but U.S. regulators have blocked its use.

    The Justice Department earlier told the FCC in a petition it supported Google’s revised request. The agency said U.S. agencies believe “there is a significant risk that the grant of a direct cable connection between the United States and Hong Kong would seriously jeopardize the national security and law enforcement interests of the United States.”
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN21Q2TP
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    Thanks. I had no idea, but it really looks like the US have finally noticed HK is no longer what it once was. I hope it helps China to back off...but who am I kidding. It just shows the US assumes HK's two systems thing is all but gone, and acts accordingly. This is the real bad news for HK, hinting on what's to come.

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    Thank you. That clarification is very important. It might not be them not trusting HK, just more of not trusting a fully Chinese operator working in HK (which of course makes absolute sense).

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    - thanks for that. Adds a lot to the blanket statements that the news is repeating.


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    There might be another cable...

    Google is said to be in the process of developing a brand-new subsea cable called Topaz.

    According to Sunil Tagare, founder and CEO of OpenCables, Google is building the new trans-Pacific system due to the complicated regulatory conditions in place between Asia and the US.

    As Capacity reported last month, Google and Facebook through, its subsidiaries GU Holdings and Edge Cable Holdings USA, are seeking permission to activate the US and the Philippines and Taiwan sections of the PLCN cable, leaving the sections connecting to Hong Kong dark.
    https://www.capacitymedia.com/articl...z-subsea-cable

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    We're also missing out on the 2 months of free Google Stadia action

    https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9566513?hl=en


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    Quote Originally Posted by timonoj:
    Thanks. I had no idea, but it really looks like the US have finally noticed HK is no longer what it once was. I hope it helps China to back off...but who am I kidding. It just shows the US assumes HK's two systems thing is all but gone, and acts accordingly. This is the real bad news for HK, hinting on what's to come.
    Yup. I can't imagine spending billions on the project then letting a fox into the hen house.
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    Given the Basic Law imposes constitutional obligations to maintain HK as a free port and international financial centre, it's only a matter of time until a clever democratic litigant decides to JR some of the bootlicking policies on the basis that they undermine those constitutional obligations.


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    So Pacific Light Data Communication is based in HK, yet won't be served by the cable it installed.

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    https://pldcglobal.com/#overview