outage of a particular cable for half a day, for one hour, we’re talking billions of dollars of investment loss,” said Gerard Parr, who has worked on submarine cable projects and is a professor of telecommunications engineering at the University of East Anglia in Britain.
“There’s nothing to be gained by this because there’s economic value in maintaining the cable,” he added.
While Chunghwa Telecom has not said which cable was damaged, the Taiwanese giant co-owns the Trans-Pacific Express, a nearly 11,000-mile undersea system that connects Taiwan with China, Japan, South Korea and the U.S.
Companies from all of those places share ownership of the cables.
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“There’s nothing to be gained by this because there’s economic value in maintaining the cable,” he added.
While Chunghwa Telecom has not said which cable was damaged, the Taiwanese giant co-owns the Trans-Pacific Express, a nearly 11,000-mile undersea system that connects Taiwan with China, Japan, South Korea and the U.S.
Companies from all of those places share ownership of the cables.
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