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Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers


Back in November, we broke the news that Meta — owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, with billions of users accounting for 10% of all fixed and 22%

Back in November, we broke the news that Meta — owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, with billions of users accounting for 10% of all fixed and 22% of all mobile traffic — was close to announcing work on a major new, $10 billion+ subsea cable project to connect up the globe. On Thursday, the White House published a joint leaders statement from U.S. President Trump and India’s prime minister Shri Narendra Modi, which detailed a lengthy list of areas where the two countries would cooperate. “Digital communication, video experiences and online transactions,” are among the applications that the subsea cable will enable, according to a blog post penned by Meta’s VP of engineering Gaya Nagarajan and its global head of network investments Alex-Handrah Aimé.

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