For the Isle au Haut’s roughly 70 residents, spending the last eight years procuring and installing a subsea telecommunications cable delivering universal broadband service to the unbridged ...

There’s virtually a 100 per cent chance that the text message you just sent, the show you streamed on Netflix last night, and your Christmas online purchases were all facilitated by subsea cables.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Subsea cables, the backbone of our communications and energy, are enormous: nose to tail, they’d wrap ...