> With around 95% of the world’s communications being carried on submarine cable networks
Surely a lot of communications are within a continent, not needing deep sea cables?
Surely a lot of communications are within a continent, not needing deep sea cables?
Why? Lots of packets flowing in all types of directions, even if I'm just writing to my neighbor on Whatsapp. I'd be surprised if even 10% of my packets never left the (European) continent. Maybe it'd look differently if I lived in North America.