{"id":877163,"date":"2024-11-15T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T04:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=877163"},"modified":"2024-11-15T09:51:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T04:21:14","slug":"fibre-optic-cables-should-be-considered-critical-infrastructure-in-africa-google-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/15\/fibre-optic-cables-should-be-considered-critical-infrastructure-in-africa-google-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Fibre optic cables should be considered &#8216;critical infrastructure&#8217; in Africa, Google says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN: African governments should give fibre optic cables greater protection from attacks and harmonize policies around layouts to encourage the development of tech infrastructure, a Google executive said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Charles Murito, Google&#8217;s head of government relations and public policy in Africa, wants fibre classified as critical infrastructure, giving the terrestrial and subsea cables that underpin the continent&#8217;s communications more protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN: African governments should give fibre optic cables greater protection from attacks and harmonize policies around layouts to encourage the development of tech infrastructure, a Google executive said on Thursday. Charles Murito, Google&#8217;s head of government relations and public policy in Africa, wants fibre classified as critical infrastructure, giving the terrestrial and subsea cables that underpin the continent&#8217;s communications more protection.<\/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-877163","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\/877163","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=877163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}