Damaged undersea cables disrupting Africa’s internet will take weeks to repair | Semafor
Cables laid deep in the ocean underpin the wireless internet world, carrying data across continents through connected landing stations and data centers. Google and Meta have in recent years become the biggest names in the business of laying these fiber optic cables in Africa, as part of their investment and product expansion drives in the continent.Glo-1, a cable provided by Nigerian telecoms company Globacom, was not affected by last week’s incident. 2Africa, the 45,000km cable being deployed b...
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