The bottom of the sea is a mysterious and inaccessible place, and anything unfortunate enough to slip beneath the waves and into the briny depths might as well be on the Moon. But the bottom of the ...

In the midst of US-Soviet tensions over Berlin in early 1959, five transatlantic submarine cables suddenly stopped working. Alarm bells rang in Washington since these undersea information networks ...

In the early days of the pandemic, I began pondering the idea of healing. I stumbled upon a story about a cable repair vessel, the Leon Thevenin, which had attended to a cable break off the west coast ...

This week, Singapore will host the world’s largest gathering of experts in the field of undersea data cables when more than 1,000 will meet for the annual Submarine Networks World conference. The ...

Four big cable repair ships are converging on six submarine fiber optic cables damaged by an earthquake off Taiwan Dec. 26, trying to turn around the consequences of a “freak” seismic event that all ...

The NCC said that the cuts occurred somewhere in Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal, with an attendant disruption in Portugal. Mainone said in a statement on its website that it became necessary to declare a ...

Last month, submarine cables in the Red Sea were mysteriously severed, disrupting internet service in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This hardly registered in America, but it should have. Targeted ...

India is making strides to protect its digital links with the wider world. The nation’s reliance on submarine cables for internet connectivity and communication presents significant vulnerabilities ...

As the Indo-Pacific region further expands its global economic power, subsea fiber-optic cables will play an essential role in regional growth and stability, while also acting as a frontline in ...

The Delhi-based telco group is planning to seek intervention from the telecom department, headed by Secretary Amit Agrawal. Kocchar further said that multiple parties, including fibre makers, repair ...