Telstra plans to invest in a 9,000-kilometer undersea cable to Hawaii to improve telecommunications links between Australia and the US, the company said.Telstra COO Greg Winn said the cable would allow increased data transmission capability to the US while significantly reducing Australia's reliance on foreign-owned companies in order to compete globally.
Telstra will pay Alcatel Submarine Networks, a specialist in such cabling, will build and lay the cable, and the project is expected to be finished by mid-2008. Telstra did not say how much the new cable would cost."Telstra has an aggressive international connectivity strategy, and this is just the first step in bringing that strategy to life," Winn said in a statement.

The submarine cable will provide transmission capacity to Hawaii where it will interconnect with other cables providing direct access to the US mainland.

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