Chile planning a fiber link directly with Antarctica

Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 08:50 UTC

Chile is planning an undersea fiber cable linking the country with Antarctica and several bases in the southernmost continent. With this purpose, Chile signed an agreement with Latin America's Development Bank, CAF to begin feasibility studies

This agreement took place two years after the potential of a cable link to Antarctica was first considered, although, at the time it was supposed to be an add-on to another project called the Humboldt cable.

Chile's telecommunications hub Subtel, says that this initiative will verify the feasibility of the proposed project, which aims to provide infrastructure that will enable the sending of data from Antarctica.

It also points out that in the Antarctic continent there are different research centers that currently have to wait several days to send information to the different areas of the world that require it. With the installation of infrastructure, that time will be reduced.

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https://en.mercopress.com/2023/11/01/chile-planning-a-fiber-link-directly-with-antarctica