{"id":998233,"date":"2026-03-14T08:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998233"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:27:11","slug":"uk-ireland-to-test-readiness-for-undersea-cable-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/14\/uk-ireland-to-test-readiness-for-undersea-cable-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"UK, Ireland to test readiness for undersea cable incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain and Ireland will conduct live exercises to test their readiness for incidents involving subsea cables, the two countries&#8217; leaders said in a joint statement setting out enhanced maritime cooperation on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Citing &#8220;a more \u200ccontested environment&#8221; \u2060and \u2060increased hostile state activity, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Irish counterpart Micheal Martin said the exercises would begin in September 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain and Ireland will conduct live exercises to test their readiness for incidents involving subsea cables, the two countries&#8217; leaders said in a joint statement setting out enhanced maritime cooperation on Friday. Citing &#8220;a more \u200ccontested environment&#8221; \u2060and \u2060increased hostile state activity, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Irish counterpart Micheal Martin said the exercises would begin in September 2026.<\/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-998233","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\/998233","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=998233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}