The recent quakes in Taiwan highlighted a lack of redundancy in the Pacific, and a number of companies are planning to rectify that -- including Google. Australia's Commsday says the search giant is joining a coalition of companies in a project named "Unity," which would run a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific sometime in 2009:Verizon, too, is part of a different five-partner, $500 million plan to run new fiber across the Pacific. Information Week, meanwhile, throws some gas on the Google Phone rumor, suggesting the company isn't sure if it will be a 3G or EDGE device. In addition to Google's potential bid for 700Mhz spectrum here in the U.S., the company is also eyeballing spectrum in the UK, notes The Guardian.