Talk:Undersea Fibre Optic Cable

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I think this should most likely say that Tulloch's is the Civil Engineering Contractor for the project, or something like that. But I haven't read much about it.
Need to find proper category for it.. It certainly has nothing to do with energy ;-).... It's a communications cable.
Robbie 03:10, 5 August 2007 (MDT)

There's an existing 'Shetland Communication' category which while maybe not the perfect description, would cover it reasonably well.

Ghostrider 06:19, 5 August 2007 (MDT)

The only problem is that it has nothing to do with Shetland, other than its going through it. It is just to benefit Faroe. JAStewart 06:50, 5 August 2007 (MDT)

That's very true, although one would hope firms that provide local services will get their acts together and take any advantage of it they can, in time. It would seem the Faeroese are hopefully of that, otherwise why bother making land here at all, there's another far more direct route Torshavn-Orkney/Torshavn-Banff....

I suppose it depends whether you look at it as 'Communication with Shetland', or 'Communication involving Shetland'. The former it's not, as yet at least, but it is the latter. The old now defunct BT station at Scousburgh Hill would, were it still operational, have been something similar. It did little, or nothing for local communications as best as I know, but it was a vital component to communications to/from elsewhere in it's day, and it was very much a tangible physical presence in Shetland. The cable, while hidden isn't going to be so visually obvious, but it is as much of a tangible physical presence nontheless, as the BT compound and contents were.

Ghostrider 07:32, 5 August 2007 (MDT)

Its going to go through Shetland because they have put a booster in place in Maywick to, well, boost the signal so it keeps its strength. JAStewart 08:19, 5 August 2007 (MDT)