A spate of sabotage attacks on underwater cables, allegedly perpetrated by a Russian "shadow fleet", have shown global telecommunications infrastructure is poorly protected against deliberate acts of ...

The majority of critical undersea infrastructure is located in international waters, which means would-be saboteurs can take ...

Qatari telelcoms company Ooredoo Group has signed an agreement with French company Alcatel Submarine Networks to build a new ...

A keel-laying ceremony has been held for NKT’s new cable-laying vessel, NKT Eleonora, a vessel designed to meet the evolving needs of the offshore wind industry The keel-laying for the innovative ...

In February 2023, the 14,000 residents in Taiwan’s outlying Matsu islands were knocked offline for several weeks, when the only two submarine cables connecting them to the main island were ...

The cutting of a submarine cable outside of the Keelung Harbor earlier this month has led to renewed concerns about Chinese attempts to disrupt telecommunications in Taiwan. The disruption ...

An operator works during the mooring of an undersea fiber optic cable at Arrietara beach near the Spanish Basque village of Sopelana on June 13, 2017. (Ander Gillenea/AFP via Getty Images ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File ...

Chinese researchers apply for patents for “submarine cable cutting devices.” Russian security experts boast on state TV that cable cutting in the Baltic Sea will “freeze” Finland this winter. Northern ...

India’s largest rival, China, has been increasing its naval presence in the region. INS Nilgiri, left, along with Submarine Vaghsheer, right, and INS Surat during their commissioning ceremony at a ...

A GIANT 36ft stealth submarine drone dubbed the "Blue Whale ... Russia and Xi Jinping's China after a string of key underwater cables have been sliced in recent months. The huge drone is set ...

the Chinese embassy in D.C. told Newsweek that “the Chinese government had always welcomed and supported other countries and telecommunications companies laying international submarine cables in ...