How ‘world’s largest’ sub-sea cable could boost internet resilience for billions | BBC News

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A ship is preparing to set sail from France to lay the next section of the largest ever sub-sea internet cable.

The 2Africa cable is an incredible 45,000 km long and stretches around the entire continent.

But even as the world celebrates ambitious projects like getting more people online, internet freedom is on the decline around the world.

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  3. No surprises that the least free countries are communist and Islamic, right?

  4. "….your e-mails and social media posts…." And pretty much everything else, even phone calls between lands. They're also known as submarine (tele)communications cables, a more accurate description even if a mouthful.

    A more fun fact: The compound (silica) typically used in the fibres is also used in some toothpastes, food and cosmetics as well as glass, albeit in different forms.

  5. Until someone cuts it

  6. Unnecessary and stupid, atleast leave the sea alone but no!!!

  7. How come my neighbour house breath internet through the air but you cant wind it across the ocean like an information hurricane of internet? What if wifi is like data farts giving us brain cancer? Nasa never thinks of this.

  8. Sub sea internet cable ….so the Russians can destroy them . Just like they did before.

  9. ITs owned by few corporations anyway…. that successfully privatized internet World Wide Corporate Web

  10. India leading the world internet shutdown. Proud moment.

  11. Lets hope Joe Biden doesnt have this blown up like he did the Nordstream pipeline.

  12. Until now it is a matter of 0 and 1 means numbers and numbers can be extracted and can be intruded , so manipulation can't be difficult.
    Hence controlling internet by responsible authorities can never be difficult prior and post coming in action of Artificial intelligence router which established routs of communications can be directed in such a way that your message could reach you after travelling unwanted distances.

  13. that is until a chinese or russian ship decides to drag their anchor through it

  14. Small cable. What is the maximum throughput?

  15. fuk BBC spreading misinformation about territory of Bharat…

  16. I find it surprising that a video titled to be about the largest sub-sea cable in the world hardly spends a few seconds on the details of the cable itself (not even bothering to mention how long it would be, once completed and show on the map its route) and instead consists majorly of covering the political aspect of Internet restrictions. Whoever wrote the title needs to do a better job! Or maybe even BBC is resorting to click baiting!

  17. Where's Starlink?

  18. Internet is evil

  19. Proving once sgsin thst satalites are a lie

  20. "ITS THEIR GOVERNMENT. ITS THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RICH. ITS THE GOVERNMENT OF WALLSTREET OF THE OIL GIANTS OF THE DEFENCE CONTRACTORS.

    NOT ONE MORE BOMB DROPPED NOT ONE MORE BULLET FIRED NOT ONE MORE SOLDIER COMING HOME IN A WHEELCHAIR NOT ONE MORE FAMILY SLAUGHTERED.

    NOT ONE MORE DAY OF US IMPERIALISM". – MIKE PRYSNER

    In EVERY invaded/conflict/war torn location there are always 1000+ years of Western Colonial Exploitive Corrupt Energy Companies drilling and mining that nation by the back door. GLENCORE. BLACKROCK.

  21. @BBC News There are literally people in the US soon to be having their internet disconnected and India, Germany and the US are becoming LITERALLY authoritarian. The UK is at a crossroads, either we stand for secular liberal democracy or we follow the US and the other 2 as they self harm (marginalising free thought and constructive dissent) in the name of good intentions. PS Please note the BBC can not condemn genocide as that is a political position but it must report government policy without reference to the majority of world opinion or it will offend our New York born unelected Prime Minister.

  22. Just remember, most of the data travelling through these cables will be porn

  23. What does the white and grey suggests

  24. Tiktok is not a Chinese company

  25. We pay for internet charge to local ISP 😂😂 not free internet

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