Repairs to the sub-sea cable which brings internet services to Orkney and Shetland are expected to take more than a week. The ...

Just last week, the cutting of optical cables under the Red Sea disrupted internet access in many countries around the world. The cable cuts caused internet outages in several countries in the Middle ...

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As adversaries target submarine cables, the United States’ weak repair capacity must be treated as a national security ...

Cuts in Red Sea subsea cables disrupted internet across Asia and West Asia, highlighting risks to the world’s data backbone. Mint explains why undersea cables matter, causes of outages, repairs, and ...

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A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global ...

After a huge volcanic eruption severed the island country’s lone connection to the global internet, a difficult repair job, delving deep into the ocean, lies ahead. By Natasha Frost and James Glanz As ...