Facebook's cable is not their own dedicated cable but a shared resource: http://www.wired.com/2012/07/facebook-submarine/ http://www.wired.com/2012/07/facebook-

Facebook's cable is not their own dedicated cable but a shared resource: http://www.wired.com/2012/07/facebook-submarine/ http://www.wired.com/2012/07/facebook-submarine/ Why do you think contributing to cables would imply they want to compete AWS? It's not necessary for a data center, they might want it to reduce latency, to reduce operational costs or to increase bandwidth.