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Google's Starfish Eyes Q3 2026 for Commercial Use of Bulikula Subsea System

Google subsidiary Starfish Infrastructure hopes to start commercial operations in Q3 2026 for the U.S. landing points for its proposed Bulikula submarine cable system, it said in an application posted Monday. It told the FCC the private, non-common carrier subsea…

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cable system would connect Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and Hawaii to Fiji and French Polynesia. Bulikula is the Fijian word for a rare shell found in the Pacific Ocean, it said. Starfish intends to install and test the Bulikula system in U.S. waters in Q2 2026.