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NATO commander warns critical undersea cables and pipes 'under threat' from Russia and other foes
Deep sea cables and pipelines that are at risk of attack pose a security challenge for NATO countri…
Ella Sherman
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Houthis could cut undersea global internet cables, minister warns
Yemen's UN-recognized government said there's a "serious threat" after reports that Houthi rebels c…
Mia Jankowicz
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A media giant is suing scallop farmers for $870K, accusing them of damaging its underwater cable
Virgin Media is suing an Irish fishing trawler for $870,000, accusing it of causing damage to an un…
Joshua Zitser
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Tonga's volcanic eruption ruptured a giant undersea internet cable and knocked the country's internet offline
The government of Tonga said it will give priority to international calls and emails as it works to…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Satellite internet services like Elon Musk's Starlink won't make giant undersea cables extinct, experts say
Satellite internet constellations are a "game-changer" for rural communities but undersea cables wo…
Kate Duffy
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Russia's military is more active in the Atlantic, and NATO fears it could sabotage undersea cables to disrupt countries supporting Ukraine
US military leadership warned in recent weeks that Russian submarine activity has increased off the…
Jake Epstein
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Airtel joins undersea cable consortium, to fund 20% of investment in cable system
The SEA-ME-WE-6 will connect Singapore and France, and will be amongst the largest undersea cabl…
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Google is laying a new giant undersea internet cable, stretching from the US to Argentina
Google also says the cable will be capable of running on just a single power source, so if the powe…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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5 weeks after a deadly volcanic eruption, Tonga successfully replaced 56 miles of undersea cable to restore the country's internet
Now, officials hope the 50 Starlink satellites donated by Elon Musk last week can reconnect the out…
Hannah Towey
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Secretive and highly paid submariners are behind some of Russia's most worrying undersea operations
"Russia has the capacity to map but also potentially to conduct actions against critical infrastruc…
Constantine Atlamazoglou
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Facebook and Google are funding 2 new undersea internet cables running from the West Coast to Singapore and Indonesia
The cables are set to be completed by late 2023 and 2024, and Facebook says they will increase inte…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Remote islands off the coast of Scotland mysteriously lost all phone and internet connection after an undersea cable was cut
Local police said there was a "complete outage" on the Shetland Islands, with a communications comp…
Sinéad Baker
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Google and Facebook lay thousands of miles of undersea cables to ferry internet around the world. Here's how they do it.
Specialised vessels like this one are used to lay thousands of miles of internet cable along the se…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Facebook killed off its third US-Hong Kong undersea internet cable project in 6 months, citing US political pressure
Facebook said it withdrew its proposal to the FCC due to concerns from the US government about comm…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Google finishes laying a giant undersea internet cable stretching 3,900 miles from New York to the UK and Spain
The Google cable is set to ferry up to 350 terabytes of data per second, equivalent to 17.5 million…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Facebook and Google are laying another giant undersea internet cable, this time stretching 7,500 miles between 6 Asian countries
Google and Facebook have already laid thousands of miles of undersea internet cables together, and …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The Trump administration's mission to wall off the Chinese internet has officially killed a US-Hong Kong undersea cable project from Facebook and Google
A DOJ committee formally recommended in July that the Hong Kong part of the network be iced on nati…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Google is laying a giant new undersea internet cable stretching from New York to the UK and Spain
Named after American computer scientist Grace Hopper, the new cable will connect the US with the UK…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The US wants to kill part of an 8,000 mile-long undersea cable linking Hong Kong with LA over China spying fears
A DOJ committee is worried a cable connecting the US with Hong Kong could be vulnerable to hacking …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Plans for undersea communications cables are at a stalemate after the US warned of China's involvement, report says
A $72.6 million project designed to connect the island nations of Nauru, Kiribati and Federated Sta…