AX - Asia Global Crossing, LTD
Asia Global Crossing Ltd. is a Pan-Asian telecommunications carrier providing telecommunications services, including Internet, data, voice and Web hosting services to wholesale and business customers. The Company owns 64.5% of Pacific Crossing-1, a 21,000-kilometer undersea cable connecting the United States to Japan. The Company is constructing East Asia Crossing, a 19,500-kilometer undersea fiber-optic cable connecting Japan to Hong Kong. The Company expects to extend East Asia Crossing to Taiwan and Korea in the first half of 2001, at a later time, to Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore and, if and when regulations permit, China. Both of these systems will be seamlessly connected to the Global Crossing network, which, including Pacific Crossing-1 and East Asia Crossing, consists of 162,544 announced route kilometers that will serve five continents, 27 countries and more than 200 major cities. |
