Telecommunications
”Perpetrators of Cut Undersea Cable Discovered, Not Godzilla BTW
Over two months after The Mystery of Godzilla and the Undersea Cables,How To Fix a Mysteriously Ruptured Undersea Cable
Not a week after two massive undersea telecom cables were snapped—according to BBC News, most likely due not to Godzilla but a single tanker "dragging its anchor along the sea bed"—and the repairs are well underway. But how in the hell do you repair a nine-layer steel-reinforced cable located deep beneath the surface of the Mediterranean?
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Undersea Telecom Cables Mysteriously Cut, Digitally Stranding India and Middle East
One of today's biggest stories is the fact that India and the Middle East had about 75% of their digital connection to Europe cut off when two cables on the floor of the Mediterranean snapped under mysterious circumstances. Cables get damaged all the time, but never have two gone out simultaneously. It will take days, or even a week to repair the cables. No one knows the cause—or do they? See update below.
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Congress Tells Off FCC, Expects Full Count of Broadband Households
Turns out, the FCC defines an entire zip code as served by broadband when one single household receives one single 200-kilobit trickle. The US House of Representatives voted to change that. It seems, in order to see exactly how badly we're doing compared to the other post-industrial nations—do we rank 11th? or 15th? or 24th?—there needs to be a more accurate "broadband census." More »
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