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Protecting Internet Infrastructure with Submarine Cable Sensing

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October 2, 2025
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The millions of kilometers of fiber optic cable lying on the ocean floor have traditionally been invisible assets—laid once and forgotten until something breaks. But Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology is transforming this dark infra…

Taliban telecoms blackout plunges Afghanistan into digital darkness

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October 1, 2025
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The Taliban has imposed a nationwide telecoms blackout across Afghanistan, a move slammed by human rights organisations as causing severe harm to people’s fundamental rights, safety, and livelihoods. The blackout – which was rolled out throughout…

Russia is stalking satellites used by NATO members

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September 26, 2025
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Germany’s Defence Minister, Boris Pistorius, has warned that Russia’s spy satellites are stalking commercial satellites used by the militaries of NATO members. The warning raises the spectre of a new conflict frontier in space. The provocative ma…

Urgent digital migration could save UK services billions

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September 26, 2025
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Migrating the UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) from ageing analogue networks to modern digital services could generate a net economic benefit of over £3 billion by 2040. A study – conducted by Assembly Research and released today by BT…

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Submarine Cable Routing on an Increasingly Crowded Seafloor

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September 25, 2025
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The internet depends on a network of submarine cables no thicker than a garden hose, yet these tiny conduits carry the vast majority of global internet traffic. As digital demand explodes and new cables proliferate, cable route engineers face …

Secret Service dismantles SIM farm threat near UN summit

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September 23, 2025
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The US Secret Service has shut down a massive “SIM farm” close to where a UN summit is being held in New York. While world leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly – marking its 80th anniversary – a vast, hidden digital netw…

Verizon is building a 6G alliance with telecoms’ biggest players

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September 23, 2025
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Verizon is gathering an alliance of the biggest players in telecoms to map out the capabilities of 6G and the use cases it should enable. The US network giant has pulled back the curtain on its 6G Innovation Forum, an alliance designed to stop 6G from …

Current State and Forecasts for Submarine Cable Maintenance

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September 18, 2025
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While new submarine cable systems are being built to expand global internet capacity, the maintenance of submarine cables has not seen the investment required to maintain these systems.

Cybersecurity Challenges in Submarine Cable Systems

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September 11, 2025
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Submarine cables carry over 99% of international data traffic and face unprecedented cybersecurity challenges that extend far beyond traditional network security.
In this episode of the TeleGeography Explains the Internet podcast, Fe…

EE deploys world-first solution for slow 5G speeds in crowds

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September 9, 2025
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EE believes Advanced RAN Coordination (ARC) will put an end to slow 5G speeds due to digital gridlock, and it’s a world-first solution. When one mobile mast gets overwhelmed with users, ARC allows it to intelligently borrow spare capacity from other, l…