The Samoa Submarine Cable Company Limited and Alcatel Submarine Networks have begun a marine route survey for the 1,470 km Tui-Samoa Cable.
The survey is due to be completed next month.
Strengthening Samoa's domestic and international connectivity, Tui-Samoa Cable will have landing points in Apia and Tuasivi and Suva, Fiji.
It will deliver a capacity of at least 8 Terabits-per-second using 100 Gbit/s transmission technology.
SSCC Chair, Pepe Fia'ailetoa Christian Fruean Photo: Samoa Submarine Cable Company
The system will also have extensions to the islands of Vanua Levu and Wallis & Futuna.
The SSCC Chair Pepe Fia'ailetoa Christian Fruean said they were pleased to announce the important milestone as part of the overall implementation.
He said the marine survey represented excellent progress as the companies maintained the schedule for the Tui-Samoa system to improve the accessibility of high quality connectivity that will stimulate Samoa's ICT growth.