✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-11-29
Reflecting on community feedback and a $10B subsea fiber project by Meta.
For anyone that left comments on my LinkedIn Warrior post, thank you – I tried to reply to everyone but the UI/UX isn’t perfect. If for some reason, I didn’t get a reply back to you — belated THANK YOU!
The tech news story that caught my eye this week was a reported subsea fiber deployment plan. $10B is a large exclusive investment even for Meta (Facebook).
https://www.techmeme.com/241129/p7#a241129p7
Then again, Google has seen reporting of numerous regular subsea fiber deployments going back 15+ years.
https://www.techmeme.com/240410/p35#a240410p35
https://www.techmeme.com/211006/p8#a211006p8
https://www.techmeme.com/210609/p14#a210609p14
https://www.techmeme.com/180717/p33#a180717p33
https://www.techmeme.com/180404/p5#a180404p5
https://www.techmeme.com/180116/p3#a180116p3
https://www.techmeme.com/080826/p58#a080826p58
In fact, cooperation between Facebook and Google seemed possible 3 years ago.
https://www.techmeme.com/210816/p1#a210816p1
Prior cooperation included multiple partnerships 7 years ago.
https://www.techmeme.com/171031/p5#a171031p5
https://www.techmeme.com/170922/p9#a170922p9
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