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Posted: Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 4:48 AM HST
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Feds looking to help territory link with fiber-optic cable
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PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) _ The U-S Interior Department is proposing a three (m) million dollar appropriation to help American Samoa develop an undersea fiber-optic cable link.
Governor Togiola Tulafono has been pushing to have the U-S territory linked to the Southern Cross-owned fiber-optic cable. It runs from the U-S West Coast through Hawaii and Fiji to Australia. American Samoa would hook up in Fiji.
Tulafono says he'd like to see the project completed by the end of the year or early next year.
He says an unidentified company will open a call center in Pago Pago once the fiber-optic cable is installed.
Tulafono says the operation would initially create 200 to 300 jobs with the potential to expand to more than one-thousand workers.
(Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved)
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