Meta confirms 'Project Waterworth,' a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers | TechCrunch
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Back in November, we broke the news that Meta — owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, with billions of users accounting for 10% of all fixed and 22%

Back in November, we broke the news that Meta — owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, with billions of users accounting for 10% of all fixed and 22% of all mobile traffic — was close to announcing work on a major new, $10 billion+ subsea cable project to connect up the globe. The aim was to give Meta more control over how it runs its own services.

    • IsoprenoidEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      Privatised global communication infrastructure. Only good things can come from this.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    Makes sense, if I had the choice of dark or lit fibre I always take the dark.

    This is just a global upscaling of that thinking.