{"id":1005539,"date":"2026-04-29T08:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005539"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:28:58","slug":"the-hormuz-digital-chokepoint-where-oil-war-and-the-internet-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/the-hormuz-digital-chokepoint-where-oil-war-and-the-internet-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hormuz digital chokepoint: Where oil, war and the internet collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai: Iran warned last week that submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz were a vulnerable point for the region&#8217;s digital economy, raising concerns about potential attacks on critical infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>The narrow waterway, already a chokepoint for global oil shipments, is equally vital for the digital world. Several fibre-optic cables snake across the seabed of the strait, connecting countries from India and Southeast Asia to Europe via the Gulf states and Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai: Iran warned last week that submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz were a vulnerable point for the region&#8217;s digital economy, raising concerns about potential attacks on critical infrastructure. The narrow waterway, already a chokepoint for global oil shipments, is equally vital for the digital world. Several fibre-optic cables snake across the seabed of the strait, connecting countries from India and Southeast Asia to Europe via the Gulf states and Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005565,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005539\/revisions\/1005565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}