On June 4, 2025, Chile's government and Google formalized an agreement to build the Humboldt Cable, a submarine fiber-optic line that will directly connect South America and the Asia-Pacific region. Chile has taken a huge and historic step forward at the digital level, thanks to the implementation of the Humboldt underwater cable. Our country will thus become the first. According to Image of Chile, the Government of Chile, through Desarrollo País, a state-owned company that promotes infrastructure projects, signed with Google the partnership agreement to create a joint venture company - Humboldt Connect, which will activate and commercialize the fiber optic. Chilean state-owned infrastructure group Desarrollo País has enlisted Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York and Carey in Santiago to ink a public-private agreement (PPP) with Google for the development of a landmark submarine fibre optic cable project between Chile to Australia.
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