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> The reason so much telecom infrastructure terminated in that region was due to proximity to the government center of gravity

Yeah, that’s what I said. You could have just upvoted the comment ;)

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The suggestion implied was that the infra was there so that it could be monitored. The reality is that the infra was there because the US federal government was, and continues to be, one of the largest customers of telecom on the planet.

Yeah I’m just saying they have a close relationship as evidenced by the location of us-east-1. How far that relationship goes you or I do not know, but clearly there is a close relationship

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