The U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 1737, the “DiasporaLink Act,” bipartisan legislation aimed at exploring the ...

Undersea internet cables are the real backbone of the internet, and are at the hub of a real power struggle between governments and Big Tech.

As a potato farmer's daughter who grew up in rural Idaho, U.S. Rep. April McClain Delaney sees the value of internet access ...

HR 1737, the "DiasporaLink Act", passed through the House of Representatives by voice vote. The Bill, re-introduced in March ...

A temporary radar outage struck the Jacksonville air traffic control hub on Friday due to a cut fiber optic line, yet backup ...

Air traffic controllers in Florida briefly lost their radar after a fiber optic line was cut, but the outage didn’t lead to ...

The first transatlantic cable for telephony, for example, was put into service as late as 1956. It was then just over 30 years before the first fiber-optic cable crossed the Atlantic, TAT-8.

The high-capacity, fiber-optic cable that will link five continents will span a fantastic 31,000 miles (50,000 km) – for reference, the circumference of the Earth is 24,901 miles (40,075 km ...

If you look at websites such as the Submarine Cable Map, you can quickly see ... According to Song, the idea arose from efforts to map Africa's fiber optic networks. In the process, it became ...

WASHINGTON - Google has applied to the US regulator for a license to build a 6,900-kilometer submarine fiber-optic cable ... reads the letter. The transatlantic cable system is called "Nuvem ...