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Jul 24, 2025
You've Read About Submarine Cable Breaks. Now Read About the Repairs.
There is no shortage of headlines about high-profile cable breaks, particularly around the Baltic Sea...
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May 12, 2025
International Bandwidth Demand Surpasses 6.4 Pbps
According to new data from TeleGeography’s Transport Networks Research Service, global bandwidth demand...
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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 workshop at PTC....
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Oct 2, 2024
Escaping the Matrix: AI and Submarine Cables
We are now moving from sci-fi to reality with the launch of many AI services that are poised to...
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Jun 27, 2024
A (Refreshed) List of Content Providers' Submarine Cable Holdings
We've posted submarine cables owned by content providers for nearly a decade. When we first published...
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May 28, 2024
Why Does Diversity Matter for Submarine Cables?
Last week, I joined Ciena’s Brian Lavallée and Colt’s Laurent Taieb for a live webinar all about...
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Mar 15, 2024
Beyond the Red Sea Blues: West Africa Faces Fresh Cable Faults
As if three cable faults in the Red Sea weren’t enough of a headache, a series of West African cables...
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Jan 17, 2024
The Red Sea: A Key Subsea Cable Crossroads Under Siege
The Red Sea is a global hot spot at the moment due to repeated attacks by Yemeni Houthi rebels against...
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Nov 30, 2023
Want To Retire in Your 20s? Become a Submarine Cable
Wouldn't it be great to be fully retired before your 30th birthday? Because they are engineered with a...
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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 complex...
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Feb 16, 2023
The Decline of a U.S.-Centric Global Network
Twenty years ago, the United States was very much at the center of the global internet. In 2003, 98% of...
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Oct 13, 2022
Cutting off Europe? A Look at How the Continent Connects to the World
With the recent damage to the Nord Stream gas pipeline, there's been lots of talk about the potential...
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Oct 3, 2022
Gloomy Economic Indicators… Scary Future for the Subsea Cable Industry?
Some pretty ominous headlines have been circulating around the world lately regarding the risk of a...
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Sep 7, 2021
Global Internet Traffic and Capacity Return to Regularly Scheduled Programming
Here's the headline: global internet bandwidth rose by 29% in 2021. You could consider this a return to...
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Feb 11, 2020
About That PLCN Delay: Four Trans-Pacific Cable Market Facts to Consider
There's been a lot of press about delayed approval for the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) cable,...
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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 recent...
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Jul 1, 2019
Will New Satellites End the Dominance of Submarine Cables?
There’s been a lot in the press recently about new low-orbit satellites. Rumors abound about content...
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Jun 25, 2019
Will Bandwidth Prices Eventually be the Same on All Routes?
I call this one the price parity myth—the notion that one day bandwidth prices will be the same on all...
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Jun 20, 2019
Are Content Providers The Biggest Investors in New Submarine Cables?
We’ve written quite a bit about content provider’s investments in new cables. And we’ve seen headlines...
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Jun 13, 2019
Are New Cables Avoiding Landing in the UK Because of Brexit?
Is it true that new cables are avoiding landing in the UK because of the Brexit vote? I was curious to...
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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 for ghost...
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Oct 4, 2018
Is a Mass Extinction of Submarine Cables Looming?
The rapid pace of demand growth is only going to require more international bandwidth in the coming...
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Sep 20, 2018
International Internet Capacity Growth Just Accelerated for the First Time Since 2015
It's true. International internet capacity growth defied long-term trends in 2018 and accelerated for...
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Jun 12, 2018
Three Things Investors Should Know About the Submarine Cable Market
We get lots of questions about submarine cables. Where are they? Who owns them? What happens when they...
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May 30, 2018
Content, Capacity, and the Great, Growing Demand for International Bandwidth
Global bandwidth demand continues to grow, spurring terrestrial and submarine cable network operators to...
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Oct 30, 2017
Stranger Things: Why Netflix Isn’t Behind New Submarine Cable Builds
Besides sharks eating undersea cables, one of the biggest myths that I’ve seen recently is Netflix being...
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Aug 16, 2017
Three Facts That Summarize the Current Global Wholesale Bandwidth Market
We've been tracking the market for long-haul networks and submarine cables since 1999. Our data...
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Jul 28, 2017
Shaping the Global Wholesale Bandwidth Market
The global wholesale bandwidth market is influenced by many factors—some that change the face of the...
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May 3, 2017
Cable Breakage: When and How Cables Go Down
Earlier this year we fielded some of the most frequently asked questions about submarine cables. How do...
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