Humboldt Cable is a planned fiber optic submarine communications cable that will connect Chile with Australia, becoming the first-ever link between South America and the Asia-Pacific region. As of 2025, the plan is to build a 14,800-kilometre (9,200 mi) cable from Valparaiso, Chile, to. He declared the transition process, which began in December with outgoing President Gabriel Boric, over after the cancellation of their scheduled meetings and amid mutual accusations of a lack of transparency and alleged misstatements about the cable project between China and Chile. Photo by Ailen. The Humboldt project, born from the collaboration between the Chilean Government and the multinational Google, will span more than 14,000 kilometers and will enable the deployment of an underwater optical fiber. Chile is taking a fundamental leap to continue positioning itself as a digital hub for. With Chile's presidential handover set for March 11, outgoing President Gabriel Boric is closing his term amid a diplomatic dispute with the United States over a China Mobile-backed undersea fiber-optic cable project that would link Chile's coast in the Valparaíso region to Hong Kong—an issue now. But what is complicated is the country being mired in a geopolitical crossfire between Japan and China Telecom in Chile has come a long way since its privatisation in 1980—having the most sophisticated and well-developed infrastructure in Latin America.
