From Bangkok Thailand Geoff Long submitted an item about Google planning to build its own submarine cable linking the U.S. to Asia Pacific.

Geoff writes: “In case you missed it, Commsday had a world exclusive on Friday with news that Google is going to be one of the builders of a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009. This is obviously major disruptive news. Here’s what my Commsday colleague Grahame Lynch had to say: Google would get access to a fibre pair at build cost handing it a tremendous cost advantage over rivals such as MSN and Yahoo, and also potentially enabling it to peer with Asia ISPs behind their international gateways - considerably improving the affordability of Internet services across Asia Pacific”

Google’s move could be disruptive to the capacity industry as it takes a major source of traffic - and revenue - out of the general market place.