The installation of the South Atlantic Cable System, the first direct fibre link between Africa and South America, is nearing completion. Angola Cables said the cable will be 6,300km long and offer a capacity of 40Tbps between Brazil and Angola, with a latency of approximately 63 milliseconds. “The wet-plant installation is progressing in accorda...

Microsoft Corp. and facebook Inc. are teaming up to build an undersea cable in the Atlantic Ocean to deliver fast online and cloud services to customers of both companies. The cable, designed to have a bandwidth of as much as 160 terabytes per second, will be the highest capacity one of its kind under the Atlantic, the companies said in a stateme...

Having just 14 per cent battery left on your smartphone can be quite stressful, right? Now imagine you smartphone is the state of Tasmania. That's pretty much the situation right now on the Apple Isle, which has just 14 per cent capacity in its hydro electric dams and its main supply cable wiped out by a mystery fault. Tasmanians haven't had an...