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According to recent reports, Google is planning a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009. The project, called "Unity", has been under development for several months with a group of carriers and Google meeting for high-level talks on the plan in Sydney last week.

Although Google is neither confirming nor denying the existence of the Unity plan, the company's spokesman Barry Schnitt has been quoted saying: "Additional infrastructure for the Internet is good for users and there are a number of proposals to add a Pacific submarine cable. We're not commenting on any of these plans."

Saul Hansell writes in the New York Times:

"Google may be the ultimate do-it-yourself company. From the start, Google's sense of its own engineering superiority, combined with a tightwad sensibility, led it to build its own servers. It writes its own operating systems. It is now threatening to buy wireless carrier spectrum and it is getting ready to hire ships that will lay a data communications cable across the Pacific..."

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