![Subsea cables get damaged 'all the time' but Red Sea disruptions made repairs challenging](https://www.agbi.com/tachyon/2025/02/subsea-cables-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C450&crop=0px%2C170px%2C2560px%2C1440px)
- Analysis
- Telecoms
Red Sea attacks put security spotlight on vital subsea cables
What do Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, a new data centre in Saudi Arabia and the icy waters of the Baltic Sea have in common? In short, they reflect a new Gulf Arab, and indeed global, focus on protecting vital submarine cable networks and potentially developing alternative, terrestrial routes. The Yemeni militia’s […]