[egiva]

No on mentions one of the real behind-the-scenes motives for these new lines: Tokyo and London are major hubs for the financial services industry and reducing even 60ms in transmit time means big bucks for High Frequency Trading in these two stock markets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading

[helium]

Uhm, did you read the post? That is exactly what they say the reason was.