Anyone remember this old article in Wired? Talked about FLAG, one of the competitors of sea-me-we. Interesting because it's not owned by the telco monopolies. Talks at length about the difficulties of actually laying the cables (particularly overland, e.g. Suez), and the political issues involved. Sure, the commercial politics have changed since then, but many parts of the article strike me as oddly prescient.
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Anyone remember this old article in Wired? Talked about FLAG, one of the competitors of sea-me-we. Interesting because it's not owned by the telco monopolies. Talks at length about the difficulties of actually laying the cables (particularly overland, e.g. Suez), and the political issues involved. Sure, the commercial politics have changed since then, but many parts of the article strike me as oddly prescient.
an article appeared in The Times here. Dated 30/Sep/00.