LatinNews Daily - 5 June 2025

*Chile’s government has signed an agreement with US technology giant Google to install the first fibreoptic cable connecting South America and Oceania, extending from Valparaíso, central Chile, to Sydney, Australia. The terms of the submarine cable project, dubbed the Humboldt cable, were agreed in January 2024 and the document for the Chilean government to officially approve the public-private partnership was signed yesterday. The installation of the over 14,000km-long cable is due to begin this year and it is expected to be operational by the end of 2026. At the event in which the agreement was signed yesterday, the minister for transport and telecommunications, Juan Carlos Muñoz, expressed hope that the Humboldt cable can boost Chile’s ambitions to become a regional tech hub and improve the transfer of data crucial for sectors such as telemedicine as well as for equipment such as cameras and sensors on road networks.

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