Every online payment, cloud backup, video call and AI query feels instantaneous. None of it is weightless. Each depends on a physical system of fibre networks, internet exchanges, data centres and landing stations — and almost all of it, at some point on its journey, on a cable lying on the seabed. The International Telecommunication […]
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Every online payment, cloud backup, video call and AI query feels instantaneous. None of it is weightless. Each depends on a physical system of fibre networks, internet exchanges, data centres and landing stations — and almost all of it, at some point on its j
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