A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic It was a February night off Taiwan’s southwest coast when cargo ...

The strongest and most reliable way to connect different countries of the world to the Internet is through optical fiber cables laid under the sea. These cables are thousands of kilometers long and ...

Recent damage to undersea internet cables in the Red Sea doesn’t appear to have been deliberate, but the incident–and the naval conflict hot zone it occurred in–highlights how easily they could be ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East, experts said Sunday, though it wasn’t immediately clear what caused the ...

When a Taiwanese telecoms company detected that an international undersea cable was damaged earlier this month, it worked to divert internet traffic from the broken line to keep customers on the ...

Generally, wired internet speeds are faster than Wi-Fi connections, which means hardwired devices plugged in including MacBooks, game consoles, and PCs will deliver much better performance and ...