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President Biden To Plug US Data Transfers To China, Russia Etc

US President issues executive order to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data from being transferred to hostile nation states

Expanding global connectivity. 2Africa cable consortium includes MTN GlobalConnect, Meta Platforms, Vodafone and others

Connectivity with the British mainland restored for the Shetland and Faroe Isles, after damage last week to two subsea cables

Police declare major incident, as damage to subsea cable cuts Shetland's communications including phones, internet off from British mainland

Updated map of world's undersea cables by TeleGeography shows growing engineering infrastructure capabilities of tech firms

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Up she rises! Microsoft’s moonshot project to build more environmentally sustainable data centres under the ocean is deemed successful

Google and Facebook's Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) cable will not be activated in Hong Kong, after security law and national security concerns

New subsea cable from Google named after pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper and will run from New York to Bude in Cornwall

Undersea cable funded by Google and Facebook, connecting Los Angeles to Hong Kong, is to be blocked by US over national security concerns

More speed vicar? Google Cloud customers in European to gain boost from undersea cable to US capable of carrying 250TB per second

Jupiter cable to stretch 8,700 miles between Asia and US and will carry 60Tbps of data per second

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Hibernia Subsea cable route boats round trip latency of just under 60ms as Equinix's NY4 and LD4 data centres get connected

Huawei Marine upgrades two sections of West Africa Cable System (WACS), creating one of the longest 100Gbps submarine links in the world