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You have never tried to dig a new or more cables under the sidewalk or into the ocean, do you? What you kids think is "free" is in fact heavily subsidized by other people's money.



Very few fiber optic systems are run at capacity.

Upgrading bandwidth is therefore a matter of new optics and router cards, not new cables.

Furthermore new subsea cables bring down the unit cost of bandwidth.

Far more subsea cables have been decommissioned due to them not being cost effective anymore rather than not working.




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