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When the Cable Broke
PodcastSeason 1 · Episode 35:44

When the Cable Broke

A single subsea cut took four countries offline for a working day. Who pays for the redundancy nobody bought?

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The African Mail
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Wanjiru Mbugua, network engineer
Published
29 Aug 2026
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Network engineers walk through the hours after a subsea break: what reroutes automatically, what does not, and why the spare capacity that would have absorbed it was never commercially worth building.
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