Subsea Cable Disruptions Increase Risk to Global Telecommunications
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Submarine communications cables in the Taiwan Strait and Baltic Sea have experienced frequent disruptions. Between 2018 and 2022, cables connecting Taiwan and the Matsu Islands were cut 27 times. In the three years from 2023 to 2025, there were four major outages in the Taiwan Strait region. Since 2023, the Baltic Sea has seen 11 disruptions to its submarine systems.
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Why it matters
An estimated 1.5 million kilometers of subsea communications cables are in service and are critical to worldwide telecommunications services. The frequent faults in these cable systems pose a risk to the reliability of global connectivity.
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Global businesses might face increased costs or delays in data transmission due to cable outages.
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