Sovereign Bandwidth: Island Nations and the Geopolitics of Undersea Landing Points Geography, Cables, and the Neocolonial Monopolies of Global Internet Access
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Ja
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Ja
Altersempfehlung
1 - 99 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
08.04.2026
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EpubliSeitenzahl
205 (Printausgabe)
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901 KB
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1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9783565395422
The concept of a "borderless" internet is a geographical illusion. Every terabyte of international data must eventually rise from the ocean and plug into a physical building on the coastline. These highly secure, heavily air-conditioned "landing stations" are the absolute choke points of global telecommunications, and their locations dictate the digital sovereignty of entire continents.
Because transoceanic cables require shallow, geologically stable beaches to safely come ashore, a handful of isolated island nations and specific coastal cities have inherited immense, outsized geopolitical power. From Guam to Djibouti, whoever controls the legal jurisdiction over the beach controls the data flowing through it. This text unmasks the intense lobbying and diplomatic warfare waged by tech conglomerates and national intelligence agencies to secure exclusive landing rights, effectively redrawing the map of neocolonial influence based on bandwidth access rather than shipping lanes.
Map the physical borders of the cloud. Discover how the geography of a few strategic beaches grants absolute leverage over the digital economies of the modern world.
Because transoceanic cables require shallow, geologically stable beaches to safely come ashore, a handful of isolated island nations and specific coastal cities have inherited immense, outsized geopolitical power. From Guam to Djibouti, whoever controls the legal jurisdiction over the beach controls the data flowing through it. This text unmasks the intense lobbying and diplomatic warfare waged by tech conglomerates and national intelligence agencies to secure exclusive landing rights, effectively redrawing the map of neocolonial influence based on bandwidth access rather than shipping lanes.
Map the physical borders of the cloud. Discover how the geography of a few strategic beaches grants absolute leverage over the digital economies of the modern world.
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