Key Facts

—The project. Brazil is laying fibre-optic cable along the beds of Amazon rivers.

—The scale. The plan covers 13,200 kilometres of cable to reach 70 locations and 7.5 million people.

—The progress. Six of nine routes are done, about 50.2 percent of the network.

—The cost. The total investment is about 1.5 billion reais, some 294 million dollars, paid by telecom operators.