Report: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft laying undersea fiber-optic cables helped increase data transmission capacity by 41% in 2020 while reducing costs (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Report: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft laying undersea fiber-optic cables helped increase data transmission capacity by 41% in 2020 while reducing costs  —  The four tech giants increasingly dominate the internet's critical cable infrastructure  —  To say that Big Tech controls the internet might seem like an exaggeration.

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