"Finger-thin cables tie Internet together"

[pynelyf]

Ok, so most of this article by  PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer is terribly dull, but it has really interesting moments. Or at least moments with potential (all of which are excerpted below):

"The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch

Comments

[ijournaler]

Despite all that impressive undersea and overland cabling our broadband supplier, Virgin Media, can hardly provide enough bandwidth to give us customers the services we pay for.

[pynelyf]

HAHA. Very true--another level of the economics of internet access.