Trans Americas Fiber System is potentially planning a new subsea cable in Latin America, dubbed TAM-2.

First reported in BN Americas, the TAM-2 cable will connect Colombia and Ecuador among other countries to its planned TAM-1 system.

The Global Telecommunications-backed company said it has launched studies to access potential routes and landing points for the TAM-2 system.

Julio Bran, CEO at Trans Americas, said: “We are already doing the desktop study to go from Panama to Peru. And soon we’ll be doing the marine survey too.”

By connecting to TAM-1 in Central America, the Caribbean, and the US, Trans Americas would potentially have a Pan-American subsea system.

TAM-1, set to be operational in 2025, spans 7,000km with landing points in Florida, US; Colombia; Puerto Rico; US Virgin Islands; British Virgin Islands; Mexico; Guatemala; Honduras; Costa Rica; and Panama.

Construction of cable landing stations in Panama, Honduras, and Guatemala is underway. In Colombia, the TAM-1 cable will anchor at V.tal’s landing station, and landing stations in Mexico and Costa Rica will be from other partners.

Trans Americas is also a customer at V.tal’s BDC2 data center in Barranquilla, inaugurated in April, home to the company’s Colombian cable landing station.

AT&T is the anchor tenant and landing party for the system in all US jurisdictions.

Cables landing in Colombia and Ecuador currently include the PCCS, SAm–1, SAC, SAIT, and Maya-1 cables.

Telxius announced plans to extend its SAm-1 cable to connect Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico last month.