Central Pacific Cable is a 15,900-kilometer subsea cable which plans to connect American Samoa with Guam - two U.S. territories, and extend to up to 12 more Pacific islands, including Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna.

The Central Pacific Cable project demonstrates a strategic initiative of the United States, which aims to connect various Pacific islands and seeks to boost the U.S.’s interests in the Pacific region, where it competes for influence with China.

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a grant of $3.0 million to Tuvalu Telecom Corporation (TTC) for a feasibility study to support the development of the Central Pacific Cable. According to the announcement by the US government in February 2026, the USTDA grant has been increased to $3.4 million with an expanded scope to benefit the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI).

TTC has selected Florida-based APTelecom LLC to conduct the feasibility study.

In January 2024, Google announced plans for the Central Pacific Connect initiative, to build two new intra-Pacific cables — Bulikula and Halaihai —connecting Guam with Fuji and French Polynesia respectively. Google collaborates with Amalgamated Telecom Holdings (ATH) of Fiji, APTelecom, and Telstra on the Central Pacific Connect initiative.

In February 2026, the U.S. government announced a $132 million funding package to support the RMI and American Samoa in joining the Pacific Connect initiative.