Apple said the construction of the network of high-speed data: Report

Apple is building a high-speed network and improving the way it builds data centers, to better compete with Amazon.com Inc, Google Inc and Microsoft Corp in cloud services, Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the plans.

The plan involves the connection of Apple data centers in California, Nevada, North Carolina and Oregon, and others for the content closer to the Internet centers in some densely populated markets, Bloomberg reported.

Apple is trying to handle more traffic alone without renting server space from cloud providers like Amazon and Microsoft. While Apple has not disclosed the total costs, investment will run in the billions, Bloomberg reported.

Apple will continue with most of their existing suppliers, and is seeking mainly to strengthen their existing infrastructure, the report said.

Apple declined to comment on the report. The iPhone maker said in February it would invest € 1.7 billion ($ 1.9 billion) to build two data centers in Europe.

Apple said the centers in Ireland and Denmark, would feed the Apple online services, including the iTunes Store, App Store, iMessage, Maps and Siri for customers in Europe.