Underwater Internet Cables

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http://news.yahoo.com/insane-process-connecting-world-undersea-internet-cables-155139609.html

 

 

• Underwater cables carried 51 billion gigabytes of data per month in 2013, and that figure is expected to swell to 132 billion gigabytes in 2018.
• While 10 billion “things” accessed the Internet in 2010, Cisco expects that figure to increase fivefold by 2020.
• Currently, less than 40 percent of the worldwide population has any access to the Internet at all.
• In Africa, some 70 percent of its population has a WiFi-connected device, but only 10 percent have access to the Internet.