# Meta to get the world’s longest internet cable to India. It’s 100% exposed

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Podcast: [Daybreak](https://stenobird.com/podcast/daybreak-5886514)
Published: 2026-05-11T20:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/316bcf93
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## Resource

On a Wednesday morning in April, The Ken's Mrunmayee Kulkarni went to Rushikonda beach in Visakhapatnam looking for a manhole. She found it — a concrete chamber with a reinforced lid, no armed guard, no exclusion zone, no legal protection. In a few years, it will be one of the landing points for the world's longest undersea cable. 95% of India's internet — every payment, every message, a $341 billion services economy — runs through cables like this. The nearest repair ship is in Singapore. There is no protection law. And 60% of that traffic runs through a war zone. What happens if something goes wrong? Tune in. Read Mrunmayee's story here . Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.

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