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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

Geekwire reports [geekwire.com] on a post on Microsoft's corporate blog [microsoft.com] in which plans for a transatlantic communications cable are announced. The cable will connect Bilbao in Spain to Virginia Beach, Virginia in the USA. Construction is set to begin in August. The planned capacity of 160 Tbps would, according to the blog post, exceed that of any existing transatlantic cable. The project is to be a joint venture of Microsoft with Facebook, and is to be operated by the Telxius [bloomberg.com] arm of Telefónica.

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