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Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is the second-biggest driver of internet usage globally. Its properties — and their billions of users — account for 10% of all fixed and 22% of all mobile traffic.

Meta may try and avoid areas where there is geopolitical tension when building the cable, including the Red Sea, the South China Sea, and Egypt.

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is reportedly planning to lay an undersea internet cable that will span across the entire planet.

This ambitious project, spanning over 40,000 kilometers, is expected to cost upwards of $10 billion and aims to further support Meta’s expanding global data traffic.