Bharti and others launch Unity cable system

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Bharti Airtel said that an international consortium comprising leading Indian telecoms firms had launched Unity cable system that directly connects Japan and the west coast of the United States.

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Global Transit, Google, KDDI Corp, Pacnet and SingTel are the other partners in the consortium that built the cable for about $300 million to boost the Trans-Pacific connectivity, Bharti said in a statement.

Bharti this week tied up a $9 billion deal to buy Kuwaiti telecom Zain's assets in 15 African countries and said it would become the world's fifth-largest wireless operator.

The Indian telecoms firm fully owns the i2i undersea cable systems and is consortium partner for five global undersea cable systems.