The Wall Street Journal: Facebook drops bid to build underwater fiber-cable link to Hong Kong

A Facebook Inc. consortium withdrew its bid to build a new internet conduit between California and Hong Kong after months of pressure from U.S. national-security officials, the latest sign of a deepening rift between the two governments.

The social-media giant told the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in a filing it would withdraw its application to land the Hong Kong-Americas project, known by its abbreviation HKA, pending a new request for “a possibly-reconfigured submarine cable system.”

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March 11, 2021 at 03:27PM
Drew FitzGerald,  Newley Purnell
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