The company has 60 days to cease providing domestic and international services in the country. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted an order revoking China Unicom (Americas) Operations Ltd. These fiber-optic lines stretch across the seafloor, making them ideal targets for sabotage with minimal resources, while creating just enough plausible deniability for malicious actors to dodge any consequences. To date, Taiwan's limited response to China's cable cutting (see discussion below) has. Multiple OTN and IPRAN loops in the local transmission network entered open-loop states (dual-link failure). 5 that a Chinese vessel has allegedly severed an undersea cable located off the coast of the Taiwanese port Keelung Harbor. The coast guard reported spotting the Shunxin-39, a Cameroon-registered vessel, seven nautical miles off the north coast of Taiwan's Yehliu. In February, American subsea cable company SubCom LLC began laying a $600-million cable to transport data from Asia to Europe, via Africa and the Middle East, at super-fast speeds over 12,000 miles of fiber running along the seafloor.
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