"As Google owns Dunant, which will be the first trans-Atlantic cable solely owned by a non-telecom company, it can be connected directly to the firm’s data centers and means Google doesn’t have to share bandwidth with any consortium partners. This gives it an advantage over the likes of Microsoft and Amazon, who use consortium cables to transfer data across the Atlantic."
www.techspot.com/news/75552-google-building-private-subsea-cable-runs-virginia-france.html
Lots of sauce.
What about Google and Kenya - announced right after Obummer's visit:
www.wired.com/story/loon-internet-balloons-kenya-google-alphabet-x/
Internet from a balloon…