"Fiber optic cable networks are expensive to install—often prohibitively so in sparsely populated rural areas such as where I live. About 15 years ago, we had high hopes when the provincial telco utility ran a fiber optics line within sight of my office window, albeit about a mile distant and across a lake. They even ran a spur off the main trunk to a pole alongside the local switching station about half a mile from my house."
DatacenterDynamics: A landlocked nation wedged between India and China, Nepal has long sought to remain independent and keep on good terms with the two economic and military giants, constantly trying to balance the interests of each nation.
Yeah, really seems like they jumped on the chance to do it after Nepalese-Indian relations began to sour
Definitely as it strengthen the ties up between China and Nepal on the other end it will somewhat affect relationship between India and Nepal too.
Yeah, this means they can't have the same issues as they had with oil when they were fully reliant on India for delivery. However, it also means increasing power and control by China...
Superloop has raised AU$7.4 million to bring its total to AU$49.3 million to construct a network connecting datacentres, enterprise buildings, and subsea cables in Hong Kong.
Within the last year there have been 16 so-called fiber cuts in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to the F.B.I., someone or some group has been going through manholes to sever fiber optic cables that supply telecommunications to large sections of the region which is home to technology companies, academic institutions and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, overseer of the nation’s nuclear weapons.
