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• BY NICOLE STAROSIELSKI

Tahiti, a figure-eight shaped island in the South Pacific with a population of around 180,000, received its first undersea fiberoptic cable in 2009--a simple branch to Hawai'i, where traffic would funnel out to the rest of the world.

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