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From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Transoceanic Cables
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Date: 15 Nov 90 02:29:44 GMT
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Recent articles have referred to the TAT-8 transatlantic cable, and
the TAT-9 cable under construction.  Do these numbers imply that there
are exactly eight transatlantic cables, or possibly fewer if some
older ones have been retired?  Or are there other namespaces besides
TAT-n?

Roughly how many transoceanic cables are there under all the oceans of
the world?  Roughly what fraction of calls use them rather than
satellites?  (Or rather, what fraction of half-calls, since it was
said recently that a call can be satellite one way, cable one way.)

Curiously,

Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com