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War halts work on submarine cable link in the Persian Gulf
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The 2Africa system, hit by the war in the Middle East, will be the largest subsea cable network ever built, spanning 45,000 kilometers In sum – what to know: Project halted – Work on the Persian Gulf portion of the cable has stopped after the war in the Middle East made operations unsafe. Shipping risks […]