Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia

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Google is preparing to build what will be the first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia. The news comes as the major cloud hyperscalers battle it out for business dollars, with Google playing catch-up with AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. Google’s announcement follows widespread outages across Africa, which have been attributed to […]

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