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Construction of Microsoft and Facebook's jointly-funded submarine cable has ended. The two companies, along with construction and operation partner Telxius, revealed the project in May 2016 and promised a 160 terabit per second link across a 6,600 km route linking Virginia Beach, USA, and Bilbao, Spain. Cable-laying work …

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    1. aqk
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      Re: Great News twitter also?

      Sorry, but twitter can't transmit packets more than 140 bytes.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Seems a very long way...

    To pipe unwanted waste material. But perhaps more environmentally friendly than dumping it in the sea.

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  3. Kev99 Silver badge

    160Tbps cable going 6,000 miles and I can't get more than 3Mbps because my local ISP says it's not possible. What am I missing?

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    1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
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      The budgetary availability of a combined MS and FB

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