Over 1,000km of fibre-optic cable has been deployed, and the cable will link Salvador and Fortaleza, the capital cities of the states of Bahia and Ceará.
The deployment is part of a project to increase data transmission capacity in the north by 100 times. TIM Brasil pledged in April 2013 to invest more heavily in network improvements across the country.
This was followed by TIM Brasil installing its fibre-optic network between Tucuruí, Pará, and Manaus, Amazonas in northern Brazil in August this year.
