How ‘world’s largest’ sub-sea cable could boost internet resilience for billions | BBC News

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How ‘world’s largest’ sub-sea cable could boost internet resilience for billions | BBC News


A ship is preparing to set sail from France to lay the next section of the largest ever sub-sea internet cable.

The 2Africa cable is an incredible 45,000 km long and stretches around the entire continent.

But even as the world celebrates ambitious projects like getting more people online, internet freedom is on the decline around the…

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  1. "….your e-mails and social media posts…." And pretty much everything else, even phone calls between lands. They're also known as submarine (tele)communications cables, a more accurate description even if a mouthful.

    A more fun fact: The compound (silica) typically used in the fibres is also used in some toothpastes, food and cosmetics as well as glass, albeit in different forms.

  2. How come my neighbour house breath internet through the air but you cant wind it across the ocean like an information hurricane of internet? What if wifi is like data farts giving us brain cancer? Nasa never thinks of this.

  3. Proving satellites are satelloons…😂😂😂😂utter bullshit
    Earth is not a globe.
    99% of communication is undersea cables
    Wake up sheeple
    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
    NCSWIC NOTHING

  4. Until now it is a matter of 0 and 1 means numbers and numbers can be extracted and can be intruded , so manipulation can't be difficult.
    Hence controlling internet by responsible authorities can never be difficult prior and post coming in action of Artificial intelligence router which established routs of communications can be directed in such a way that your message could reach you after travelling unwanted distances.

  5. I find it surprising that a video titled to be about the largest sub-sea cable in the world hardly spends a few seconds on the details of the cable itself (not even bothering to mention how long it would be, once completed and show on the map its route) and instead consists majorly of covering the political aspect of Internet restrictions. Whoever wrote the title needs to do a better job! Or maybe even BBC is resorting to click baiting!