African Entrepreneurship Records

Chapter 1090 The world’s second largest submarine cable network

When the East African government was trying to extort money from Britain, Russell also explained the East African government's attitude to London through a convenient communication network.

After all the news was sent out, Russell couldn't help but sigh to his subordinates: "Just in terms of communication technology and popularization, East Africa is already quite powerful!"

His assistant Robinson said: "In terms of communications, East Africa is on the same level as Europe and North America. Europe's communications are the most developed, and North America is also good. As for Africa as a whole, East Africa almost single-handedly brought this continent to the world. Not at his level."

East Africa had established quite developed telegraph and telephone lines as early as the last century, and established a nationwide telegraph network in the 1980s. Of course, at that time, East Africa had not yet occupied lands such as Angola and Mozambique.

In the 1990s, East Africa not only made great breakthroughs in telecommunications technology. Wireless began to be promoted. At the same time, telegraph and telephone technologies were also upgraded again. Due to land reshaping, economic development and other reasons, East Africa ushered in an industrial construction boom in the communications field.

Domestically, East Africa has carried out large-scale communication construction in Angola, Mozambique, Orange and other regions. It has upgraded existing lines in the eastern and central regions, and at the same time, it has been rapidly rolling out in other underdeveloped areas, especially in northern East Africa. Communication cables.

By the beginning of the 20th century, during the first two industrial plans in East Africa, East Africa began to lay out independent overseas submarine cable laying.

The most typical ones are the submarine cable between the West Coast and Western Europe and the two direct lines from East Africa to the Far East.

The main purpose of laying the west coast submarine cable is to connect Western Europe, with Spain and France as the access points respectively, thereby establishing a second submarine cable line to connect Europe.

On the east coast, East Africa also directly built a cable line to the Far Eastern Empire, crossing the Indian Ocean, transferring to the Far Eastern Empire and other colonies in East Africa in Lanfang Overseas Province, and finally reaching Alaska. After all, Alaska's location is relatively different from East Africa. The words also belong to the Far East.

In addition, there are also secondary lines specifically connecting the Middle East, India, Australia and other regions. This also shows the layout of East Africa in the entire Indian Ocean region.

As of now, East Africa is planning to build submarine cables directly connected to South America, North America and other regions. Among them, the Haitian cable in South America has begun construction. By then, the connection between East Africa and South American countries will be even closer.

In the field of communications, East Africa is actually playing a big role in the world. A submarine cable network centered on East Africa is rapidly forming.

This is actually also learning from the British government, which was one of the first countries to recognize the role of submarine cables in the political and military fields.

As a colonial power, Britain has overseas colonies all over the world, so the UK itself has an urgent need for communication technology. In the process of building communication networks connecting the mainland and overseas colonies, the British have discovered other functions of submarine cables, and Since the middle of the last century, it has been continuously deploying in this field.

Now that decades have passed, the UK still firmly controls the world's largest and most complete submarine cable network. Even if there are many competitors behind it, it is difficult to offset the UK's first-mover advantage.

The earlier it is built, the more customers it will have, and the inertia of information interaction will continue to strengthen this advantage, which is more vividly reflected in the field of commercial trade.

Of course, in the face of Britain's hegemony in communications, other powerful countries in the world will not choose to lie down. East Africa, the United States, France and Germany, etc., will all build alternatives with their own countries as the core.

Ernst had anticipated this outcome long ago, and began to deploy in related fields in the early stages of the formation of East African countries. This has also made East Africa very profitable today. Although the submarine cable network is still not comparable to the UK in scale, it is also Spearheaded the completion of the world's second largest submarine cable network, dominated by East Africa.

After the laying of submarine cables in South and North America is completed, East Africa has initially built a second submarine cable network that can connect most areas of the world and is centered on its own country. In addition to the telegraph industry, East Africa has taken the lead in the fields of telephone and radio communications, which further amplifies East Africa's advantages.

In the field of communications, especially in the laying of submarine cables, East African countries actually have a great geographical advantage. The African continent is already in a rather wonderful position in the world structure.

The African continent is located under the Eurasian continent, traverses the equator, and occupies a large area in both the northern and southern hemispheres. This makes the African continent an important link that cannot be avoided when laying submarine cables.

For example, the British submarine cable is connected to India and other regions through the Red Sea and the Cape of Good Hope, completely circling the African continent.

East Africa is the core of the African continent, so the radiation from East Africa to other parts of the world is less susceptible to interference. It is on this basis that the East African government established the world's second largest submarine cable network.

Therefore, it is quite convenient for East Africa to obtain information from various regions in the world, and this telecommunications network is almost impossible to be cut off by the British.

The reason why Britain is mentioned is mainly because Britain has such a record in the previous World War. After the start of the previous World War, the British government cut off the main submarine cable between Germany and the United States, thus changing the message transmission between Germany and the United States. Gotta lag.

By virtue of its geographical advantage, the United Kingdom almost controls telecommunications from the Nordic region. Countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and Russia are all directly influenced by the United Kingdom to a certain extent.

This information advantage did provide great help to Britain in World War I in its previous life. At least the United States' attitude towards Germany was greatly affected.

After Britain cut off direct contact between Germany and the United States, German information passing through Britain was again under the surveillance of the British government, and the British government could rely on its advantage in public opinion to arouse American society's dislike of Germany and provide the basis for the United States' eventual participation in World War I. convenience.

Although the U.S. government’s participation in the war is driven by U.S. national interests, the British must be behind the instigation of popular sentiment. You must know that there were many Germans in the United States in the past. If these Germans were not instigated by the war of public opinion, they would definitely be hostile to the United States. This democratically elected government has huge consequences.

Apart from anything else, judging from the experience of the East African government, the people of East Africa will have a certain degree of favorable impression of the German region of Europe or the Far Eastern Empire in a natural state.

It can be deduced from this that in the past life, the largest immigrant group in the United States, that is, German immigrants, could obviously play a huge role in American public opinion even if they were not bewitched.

The UK was able to lead this public opinion offensive against the American people, and shift the main blame for the war to Germany, and gain American society's sympathy for the British-led Allied camp. Its fundamental approach was to directly cut off the contact between the United States and Germany.

Therefore, in order to prevent East Africa from falling into the embarrassment of Germany in its previous life, and for people like Ernst who always put national security first, it is extremely important to build a world communications network that is not subject to British interference.

Moreover, this network construction has greatly helped East Africa influence public opinion in Europe and other regions. When East Africa was carrying out industrial construction, the East African government used the communication network to achieve a certain degree of "stigmatization" of East Africa. This was to a certain extent It has indeed affected the attitudes of European countries towards East Africa.

When East Africa was booming, many Europeans did lack a correct understanding of East Africa because of the East African government's public opinion war. Not to mention foreign countries, East Africa was also affected to a certain extent, giving people the illusion that East Africa is similar to India.

Of course, the East African government will naturally not overdo its propaganda, but rather cover up the radical situation in the field of national development. If East Africa promotes its own industrial construction achievements like the Soviet Union in the past, it can achieve similar effects, but this can also easily cause backlash.

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