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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% 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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh boy, centralization. What could go wrong?

[–] Isoprenoid 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks 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.