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Inside the installation of new trans-Atlantic undersea cable

While not directly related to what we did/do, it is undersea orientated. This is where almost all of the bandwidth for internet, streaming video, online shopping and banking, etc come from. It is amazing in and of itself but, if you ask me, a colossal Archilles Heel for the world economy as the cable routes are readily available. But, then again, maybe this is just a "conspiracy theory" thinking on my part.

Rick

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OCTOBER 15, 2016, 8:37 AM| If you've ever phoned or emailed someone on another continent or browsed a foreign website, you can dial up some gratitude for something that happened a century and a half ago. It's been 150 years since the first trans-Atlantic Cable began ushering in global communications. And now, tech giants are taking that undersea revolution a big step further. Mark Albert reports.

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