Google, a US-based information technology firm, will contribute $1 billion to work on digital connectivity between the U.S. and Japan through two new subsea links, the Alphabet-owned organization added amid a visit by the Japanese prime minister to support ties between the nations.

 

Google added that the two subsea links, Proa and Taihei, will further develop connectivity between the U.S., Japan, and various Pacific island nations and regions.

 

"Building on the U.S.-Australia joint funding commitment for subsea cables last October, the United States and Japan plan to collaborate with like-minded partners to build trusted and more resilient networks and intend to contribute funds to provide subsea cables in the Pacific region," a joint statement from the United States and Japan said on Wednesday.

 

The Pacific area has become an extraordinary area of interest for China and the U.S., who are shaking for impact in the zone with contending offers for framework and military alliance. Joe Biden, U.S. President, has pushed for U.S. strength in telecommunications services, seeing the business as a key public safety issue because of its command over data streams worldwide.

 

The U.S. vowed in the previous year to mutually subsidize two undersea links to be worked by Google. The links would associate the U.S. domain of Guam with center points in Fiji and French Polynesia and further stretch out across far-off Pacific Islands. Google said the Proa subsea link would interface the U.S., Japan, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and Guam.

 

Furthermore, the technology firm added it would subsidize the development of an interlink link linking Hawaii, the CNMI and Guam. The tech giant additionally said it would collaborate with Japanese-based organizations—including KDDI, Arteria Organizations, Philippines-based Citadel Pacific and the CNMI—to improve digital connectivity in the locale.