Chinese state-owned telecom firms, China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, are developing a $500 million undersea fiber-optic internet cable network that would link Asia, the Middle East and Europe to rival a similar US-backed project, Reuters reported, citing four. Chinese state-owned telecom firms, China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, are developing a $500 million undersea fiber-optic internet cable network that would link Asia, the Middle East and Europe to rival a similar US-backed project, Reuters reported, citing four. The Asia Link Cable (ALC) is approximately 6,100-kilometer in length, connecting Hong Kong SAR China and Singapore as its trunk, with branches into Hainan (China), Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia. The ALC cable system features 13 fiber pairs on its Hong Kong to Singapore trunk, 26. China Telecom recently announced that the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) project has been completed ahead of schedule. The cable, spanning approximately 10,000 kilometers, acts as a new submarine link in the Asia-Pacific region – the first in over eight years. Developed by a consortium, which includes. Fiber now underpins nearly all fixed broadband in China – With 99% of lines on fiber, operators and policymakers rely on it as the backbone for gigabit services, smart cities and national digitalization efforts. E) fibre cable land application engineering project whose application test was participated in by Yangtze optical fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (Stock Code: 6869.