Are you saying the article is false?
Or that the map illustration is false? Although the map illustration doesn't come from your post.
How did you even find the LinkedIn post? Are they the same author? Is TFA based on the LinkedIn post? How do you know?
And it seems like the TFA doesn't even have an author, nor can I find an author for their whole blog...
Maybe you can clarify all of this, since you seem to have some context here?
AFAICT this post isn't "false" as much as "speculation". Given the news that a cable will be spanning the Atlantic ocean with an end goal of South Asia, South Carolina -> Africa doesn't seem insane. Though it looks like there's no cables there right now...
I was coming in here to complain about "encompass" vs "encircle", but now I'm fascinated by this map. Cool webdev, too!
EDIT: My biggest takeaway is that we should conquer/buy/steal French Polynesia. Also, huge shoutout to the Leif Erikson cable, connecting Oslo with the absolute middle of nowhere[1] in Canada. Oil rig thing, maybe...?
“Roderick Beck worked as a sales contractor for Hibernia Atlantic and helps buyers procure capacity and providers make sales.”
As noted the cable connects the US East Coast to South Africa and then heads to India and continues on to Australia before the home stretch to the States. We even know the number of fibre pairs, 16. It is a spatial division multiplexing system.
How long till we get Niger and Algeria connected?