Australia’s Overseas Telecommunications Commission has signed agreements with AT&T Co and Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co for the construction of the fibre optic undersea cables needed to complete the network circling the Pacific Rim with a link from Guam to Japan, the Teleputing Hotline reports: agreements have now been reached settingtimetables for cables running from Japan to the US, then on to Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia and Guam.