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"The threat here is definitely to the pure wholesale networks, i.e. the middleman in this case, and the danger is that all that coming video traffic will bypass them."

"Early this year, they started providing eastern Europe with IP transit for just €4/Mb/month."

"A few NSPs quietly mentioned that Google has already been offering to sell bandwidth on their part of the cable in the wholesale market. This puts some NSPs between a rock and a hard competitive place — with one of their biggest customers!"

"Protecting the global submarine cable network: New and evolving challenges for operators, governments and stakeholders in the expanding submarine cable community"

"I think it makes it clear that “now” is more important than “free."

"But according to Lewis, “the [January-February] cuts affected the ability of CentCom [U.S. military Central Command] to send communications from Afghanistan and Iraq."

"The sector is famously sensitive to economic trends due to the capex intensive nature of tech businesses. When their customers even think about sneezing, equipment vendors are already running a fever. But it works the other way too, the rebound can be similarly powerful."