Transpacific Cable Systems: Early telegraph to fiber era (1902–2000)

1. Pacific Cable network completed across British territories

   Oct 31, 1902Labels: Pacific Cable, All Red, British Pacific

   • Atlantic Cable
   • BMSC History

2. Commercial Pacific Cable landed at San Francisco

   Dec 14, 1902Labels: Commercial Pacific, San Francisco

   • Atlantic Cable
   • ComPac Cable

3. San Francisco–Honolulu telegraph service opened

   Jan 1, 1903Labels: Commercial Pacific, San Francisco

   • Atlantic Cable
   • ComPac Cable

4. Commercial Pacific Cable extended onward to Guam and Manila

   Jul 4, 1903Labels: Commercial Pacific, Guam, Manila

   • Atlantic Cable
   • Atlantic Timeline

5. Roosevelt’s message demonstrated global cable routing

   Jul 4, 1903Labels: Theodore Roosevelt, Global Cable

   • ComPac Cable
   • Atlantic Cable

6. German raid disrupted Pacific Cable relay at Fanning Island

   Sep 7, 1914Labels: Fanning Island, German raid

   • Fanning Raid
   • Pacific Station

7. First Hawaii–U.S. mainland telephone cable opened (HAW-1)

   Oct 8, 1957Labels: HAW-1, Hawaii

   • HAW 1
   • Atlantic Cable

8. COMPAC connected Canada with Australia and New Zealand by telephone

   Dec 1, 1963Labels: COMPAC, Vancouver Sydney

   • COMPAC
   • Atlantic Cable

9. TPC-1 completed as first transpacific telephone cable

   Jun 18, 1964Labels: TPC-1, Japan Hawaii

   • Atlantic Cable
   • Japan Cables

10. TPC-2 expanded transpacific capacity across Asia-Pacific

    Jan 1, 1975Labels: TPC-2, Asia Pacific

    • Transpac
    • Japan Cables

11. TPC-3 entered service as first transpacific fiber-optic cable

    Apr 18, 1989Labels: TPC-3, fiber-optic

    • UPI 1989
    • Transpac

12. TPC-5CN began operations as a ring “self-healing” network

    Dec 31, 1996Labels: TPC-5CN, ring network

    • TPC 5CN
    • SubmarineN