This fibre-optic cable at Maroochydore will bring download speeds of 36 terabits per second to Queensland within 60 days.

By mid-2020 it will be transferring commercial data.

The fibre optic telecommunications cable being connected at Maroochydore.

After five years, Australia's newest telecommunications link from Asia and the US landed on Monday, promising faster internet connections to the country's east coast by mid-2020.

Singapore-based telecommunications company RTI Connectivity – the technology partner in a five-year $35 million Sunshine Coast and Queensland government project to bring a new data source to Australia – delivered a 550-kilometre cable connecting an existing Japan-to-Sydney undersea cable to the beach at Maroochydore.