Chapter 1090 The world's second largest submarine cable network

When the East African government was extorting money from Britain, Russell also explained the East African government's attitude to London through the convenient communication network.

After all the messages were sent out, Russell couldn't help but sigh to his subordinates: "From the perspective of communication technology and popularization, East Africa is already quite powerful!"

His assistant Robinson said: "In terms of communication, East Africa is at the same level as Europe and North America. Europe has the most developed communication, and North America is also good. As for the whole of Africa, it is almost relying on East Africa alone to bring this continent to a height that does not belong to it."

East Africa established quite developed telegraph and telephone lines as early as the last century, and established a national telegraph network in the 1980s. Of course, East Africa had not occupied Angola and Mozambique at that time.

In the 1990s, East Africa not only made great breakthroughs in telecommunications technology, but also began to promote radio. At the same time, telegraph and telephone technology were upgraded again. In addition, due to land reconstruction and economic development, East Africa ushered in a wave of industrial construction in the field of communications.

Domestically, East Africa has carried out large-scale communication construction in Angola, Mozambique, Orange and other regions, upgraded and renovated existing lines in the east and central regions, and quickly laid communication cables in other underdeveloped regions, especially in the north of East Africa.

In the early 20th century, during the first two industrial plans in East Africa, East Africa began to lay out independent submarine cable laying overseas.

The most typical of these are the submarine cables between the West Coast and Western Europe and the two lines from East Africa to the Far East.

The main purpose of laying submarine cables on the West Coast is to communicate with Western Europe, with Spain and France as access points, so as to establish a second submarine cable line to connect with Europe.

On the East Coast, East Africa also directly built a cable line to the Far East Empire, crossing the Indian Ocean, transferring to the Far East Empire and other colonies in East Africa in the Lanfang Overseas Province, and finally arriving in Alaska. After all, Alaska's location is also in the Far East relative to East Africa.

In addition, there are also branch lines specifically connecting to the Middle East, India, Australia and other regions, which also shows the layout of East Africa in the entire Indian Ocean region.

As of now, East Africa is planning to build submarine cables directly connected to South America, North America and other regions. Among them, the Haiti cable in South America has begun construction, and the connection between East Africa and South American countries will be closer.

In the field of communications, East Africa is actually playing a big game in the world, and a submarine cable network centered on East Africa is rapidly forming.

This is actually learning from the British government, which is one of the first countries to recognize the role of submarine cables in politics and military fields.

As a colonial power, Britain's overseas colonies are all over the world, so Britain itself has an urgent need for communication technology. In the process of constantly building a communication network connecting the mainland and overseas colonies, the British have discovered other functions of submarine cables, and have been constantly laying out in this field since the middle of the last century.

Now, decades later, Britain still firmly holds the world's largest and most complete submarine cable network. Even if there are many competitors behind it, it is difficult to offset Britain's first-mover advantage.

The earlier the construction, the more customers you have, and the inertia of information interaction will continue to strengthen this advantage, which is more vividly reflected in the field of commercial trade.

Of course, facing the British hegemony in communications, other powerful countries in the world will not choose to lie flat. East Africa, the United States, France, Germany, etc. will build alternative solutions with their own countries as the core.

Ernst anticipated this result early and began to lay out in related fields at the beginning of the formation of East African countries. This has also made East Africa lucrative today. Although the submarine cable network is still not comparable to that of the United Kingdom in scale, it is also the first to complete the world's second largest submarine cable network dominated by East Africa.

When the laying of submarine cables in North and South America is completed, East Africa will initially build a second submarine cable network that can connect most parts of the world and is centered on its own country.

In addition to the telegraph industry, East Africa has taken the lead in the fields of telephone and radio communications, which further magnifies East Africa's advantages.

In the field of communications, especially in the laying of submarine cables, East Africa actually has a great geographical advantage. The African continent is already in a relatively wonderful position in the world pattern.

The African continent is located below the Eurasian continent, across the equator, and occupies a large area in both the northern and southern hemispheres, which makes the African continent an important link that cannot be avoided in the laying of submarine cables.

For example, the UK's submarine cable connects with India and other regions through the Red Sea and the Cape of Good Hope, which is completely around the African continent.

East Africa is the core of the African continent, so it is less susceptible to interference when radiating from East Africa to other parts of the world. The East African government has established the world's second largest submarine cable network on this basis.

Therefore, it is quite convenient for East Africa to obtain information from various regions in the world, and this telecommunications network is almost impossible to be cut off by the British.

Why is the UK mentioned? It is mainly because the UK had such a history in the previous World War I. After the start of the previous World War I, the British government cut off the main line of the submarine cable between Germany and the United States, which delayed the transmission of information between Germany and the United States.

Britain, with its geographical advantages, almost controlled telecommunications from the Nordic region. Countries like Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and Russia were directly influenced by Britain to a certain extent.

And this information advantage did provide great help to Britain in the previous life in World War I. At least the attitude of the United States towards Germany was greatly affected.

After Britain cut off direct contact between Germany and the United States, German information through Britain was monitored by the British government. The British government could use its public opinion advantage to arouse the disgust of American society towards Germany, which provided convenience for the United States to finally participate in World War I.

Although the US government's participation in the war was dominated by the national interests of the United States, the instigation of public sentiment must have been instigated by the British behind the scenes. It should be known that there were many Germans in the United States in the previous life. If these Germans were not instigated by the public opinion war, they would inevitably have a huge impact on the democratically elected government of the United States.

Apart from other things, from the experience of the East African government alone, the people of East Africa would naturally have a certain degree of goodwill towards the German region of Europe or the Far East Empire.

It can be inferred from this that the largest immigrant group in the United States in the past, that is, German immigrants, can obviously play a huge role in American public opinion without being deceived.

Britain can lead this kind of public opinion offensive against the American people, and put the main blame for the war on Germany, and win the sympathy of American society for the Allied camp led by Britain. Its fundamental approach is to directly cut off the connection between the United States and Germany.

Therefore, in order to prevent East Africa from falling into the embarrassment of Germany in the past life, and for people like Ernst who always put national security first, it is particularly important to build a world communication network that is not interfered with by Britain.

Moreover, the construction of this network is of great help to East Africa in influencing public opinion in Europe and other regions. When East Africa was carrying out industrial construction, the East African government used the communication network to achieve a certain degree of "stigmatization" of East Africa, which did affect the attitude of European countries towards East Africa to a certain extent.

When East Africa was booming, many Europeans did lack a correct understanding of East Africa because of the East African government's public opinion war. Not to mention abroad, even East Africa was also affected to a certain extent, giving people the illusion that East Africa was similar to India.

Of course, the East African government will not over-publicize, but rather cover up the radical situation in the country's development field. If East Africa publicizes its own industrial construction achievements like the Soviet Union did in the past, it can achieve a similar effect, but this can easily cause backlash.