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Wednesday April 5, 2023

Inside the underwater cables powering the economy

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Inside the underwater cables powering the economy

April 5, 2023 • On the Internet, everything feels instantaneous. But how exactly did that data get to you? We'll take you on a virtual tour of the 19th-century technology that runs the modern world.

Inside the underwater cables powering the economy

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Tuesday January 18, 2022

An undersea cable fault could cut Tonga from the rest of the world for weeks

A satellite image taken by a Japanese weather satellite shows an undersea volcano eruption at the Pacific nation of Tonga Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (Japan Meteorology Agency via AP) AP hide caption

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An undersea cable fault could cut Tonga from the rest of the world for weeks

January 18, 2022 • Amid the 7.6-magnitude quake, the single fiber optic cable that the archipelago relied on for global communications ruptured.