News Meta plans 50,000 km undersea cable to connect the U.S., Brazil, Africa, India, and Australia

[Admin]

Meta announced a 50,000-km undersea internet cable to connect the U.S. to Brazil, South Africa, and Australia while avoiding geopolitical hotspots.

Meta plans 50,000 km undersea cable to connect the U.S., Brazil, Africa, India, and Australia : Read more

 

[bit_user]

I would hope they're planning to lease out excess capacity to general internet traffic, but I somehow doubt it.

 

[TheOtherOne]

Infrastructure like this should NEVER, EVER be owned by any private company. Govts all over the world should get together to build and maintain these to avoid private companies owning unique communication infrastructure and then charging ridiculous amount to access it that only keeps increasing every year on the name of "inflation".

 

[bit_user]

Infrastructure like this should NEVER, EVER be owned by any private company.

Unlike a road or sewer, there's nothing to prevent a competitor from installing their own link. Then, competition can drive down prices.

Where I'll agree with you is that we don't want backbone companies all having their own cloud services, and tying use of their links to their services. This could create a barrier to entry for competitors. If a country is concerned about that, they could tie the landing rights of the cable to a commitment that the public be allowed to use at least some minimum % of its bandwidth at maximum upper limit of margins for the owner.

Govts all over the world should get together to build and maintain these to avoid private companies owning unique communication infrastructure and then charging ridiculous amount to access it that only keeps increasing every year on the name of "inflation".

In the US, we have private utility companies. Their potential for abuse is limited, because they're somewhat heavily regulated and usually have limits on their margins.

 

[Li Ken-un]

Meta plans 50,000 km undersea cable to connect the U.S., Brazil, Africa, India, and Australia

physical infrastructure that avoids global geopolitical hotspots

• Brazil
• Russia
• India
• China
• South Africa

🤔

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And funny that the headline should name Africa the continent while all others are countries… :side-eye: