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Jul 24, 2025
You've Read About Submarine Cable...
There is no shortage of headlines about high-profile cable breaks, particularly around the...
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May 12, 2025
International Bandwidth Demand...
According to new data from TeleGeography’s Transport Networks Research Service, global...
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Feb 26, 2025
Mother Earth, Motherboard
A few weeks ago, I returned to sunny Honolulu for TeleGeography’s annual telecom trends...
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Oct 2, 2024
Escaping the Matrix: AI and Submarine...
We are now moving from sci-fi to reality with the launch of many AI services that are poised...
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Jun 27, 2024
A (Refreshed) List of Content...
We've posted submarine cables owned by content providers for nearly a decade. When we first...
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May 28, 2024
Why Does Diversity Matter for Submarine...
Last week, I joined Ciena’s Brian Lavallée and Colt’s Laurent Taieb for a live webinar all...
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Mar 15, 2024
Beyond the Red Sea Blues: West Africa...
As if three cable faults in the Red Sea weren’t enough of a headache, a series of West African...
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Jan 17, 2024
The Red Sea: A Key Subsea Cable...
The Red Sea is a global hot spot at the moment due to repeated attacks by Yemeni Houthi rebels...
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Nov 30, 2023
Want To Retire in Your 20s? Become a...
Wouldn't it be great to be fully retired before your 30th birthday? Because they are...
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Nov 13, 2023
Beware of Deep Fake TeleGeography
The age of generative AI is certainly exciting. The ability to quickly access answers to...
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May 18, 2023
Is This the Greatest Shortcoming of the...
At SubOptic 2023, my colleague Tim Stronge and I brought back the Telecom Mythbusters to test...
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May 4, 2023
Do Submarine Cables Account For Over...
“Submarine cables account for over 99% of intercontinental data traffic” is regularly quoted...
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Apr 20, 2023
Is the Lifespan of a Submarine Cable...
“The lifespan of a submarine cable is 25 years.” We’ve all heard that, right? Is this...
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Oct 3, 2022
Gloomy Economic Indicators… Scary...
Some pretty ominous headlines have been circulating around the world lately regarding the risk...
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Sep 7, 2021
Global Internet Traffic and Capacity...
Here's the headline: global internet bandwidth rose by 29% in 2021. You could consider this a...
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Feb 11, 2020
About That PLCN Delay: Four...
There's been a lot of press about delayed approval for the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN)...
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Oct 8, 2019
Is Your Planned Submarine Cable Doomed?
Anyone who follows the submarine cable sector knows that a lot of cables have been built in...
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Jul 1, 2019
Will New Satellites End the Dominance...
There’s been a lot in the press recently about new low-orbit satellites. Rumors abound about...
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Jun 25, 2019
Will Bandwidth Prices Eventually be the...
I call this one the price parity myth—the notion that one day bandwidth prices will be the...
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Jun 20, 2019
Are Content Providers The Biggest...
We’ve written quite a bit about content provider’s investments in new cables. And we’ve seen...
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Jun 13, 2019
Are New Cables Avoiding Landing in the...
Is it true that new cables are avoiding landing in the UK because of the Brexit vote? I was...
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Oct 31, 2018
The Spooky Future for Aging Cables
Halloween—a time when boundaries between the living and the dead are blurred. It's a season...
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Oct 4, 2018
Is a Mass Extinction of Submarine...
The rapid pace of demand growth is only going to require more international bandwidth in the...
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Sep 20, 2018
International Internet Capacity Growth...
It's true. International internet capacity growth defied long-term trends in 2018 and...
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Jun 12, 2018
Three Things Investors Should Know...
We get lots of questions about submarine cables. Where are they? Who owns them? What happens...
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May 30, 2018
Content, Capacity, and the Great,...
Global bandwidth demand continues to grow, spurring terrestrial and submarine cable network...
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Oct 30, 2017
Stranger Things: Why Netflix Isn’t...
Besides sharks eating undersea cables, one of the biggest myths that I’ve seen recently is...
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Aug 16, 2017
Three Facts That Summarize the Current...
We've been tracking the market for long-haul networks and submarine cables since 1999. Our...
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Jul 28, 2017
Shaping the Global Wholesale Bandwidth...
The global wholesale bandwidth market is influenced by many factors—some that change the face...
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May 3, 2017
Cable Breakage: When and How Cables Go...
Earlier this year we fielded some of the most frequently asked questions about submarine...
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