Cable manufacturer SubCom is making the Firmina fiber optic cable this year and installing it in 2022. It should start carrying data in 2023. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Google on Tuesday announced a new underwater internet cable network to connect the U.S., U.K. and Spain, according to a blog post. The cable, called the Grace Hopper, named after American computer ...

And eventually Nigeria. The cable is named Equiano, after an enslaved Nigerian writer who bought his own freedom, and uses a new technology called fiber-level switching. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

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