In January, sea ice severed a fiber-optic cable running along the floor of the Beaufort Sea several miles off the North Slope. The line is a key piece of Northwest Alaska’s broadband infrastructure, ...

The strongest and most reliable way to connect different countries of the world to the Internet is through optical fiber cables laid under the sea. These cables are thousands of kilometers long and ...

The global internet is connected by roughly 570 fiber optic cables on the seabed. Recent breaks have industry watchers questioning the resiliency and security of these subsea cables. In late 2024 and ...

Geopolitical tensions are brewing globally over the cutting of subsea cables — critical infrastructure powering cross-border internet connectivity — in the Baltic Sea. The severing of the cables ...

Microsoft's cloud service is suffering disruptions due to undersea fiber optic cable cuts in the Red Sea, the company announced Saturday. Microsoft's Azure is the second largest cloud services ...

One of Alaska’s smallest telecommunications companies is about to provide a critical backup for the entire state. On Wednesday, Cordova Telecom Cooperative and GCI announced a partnership to lay an ...

AI and data storage offer a new way to monetize North Slope gas, generate revenue and secure Alaska’s economic future.

Internet users in India, Pakistan, and parts of the Middle East faced major disruptions after undersea cables in the Red Sea were damaged. The outage also affected the UAE, where networks like ...