Stephen Wilcox wrote on 11/12/2020 14:22:
There's no reason there should be - the UK terminates* cables from the
US and nominally Africa already which are not part of the EU or
dependent upon any UK EU law.
At the moment this is true - most of the US-EU wet plant built in the
1998-2003 time-frame terminated in the UK, but when Grace Hopper is
completed in 2022, it will only be the second americas-europe build with
a direct span to the UK in nearly 20 years.
2015: GTT Express - CA-{IE,UK}
2016: AEC-1 - US-IE
2018: Marea - US-ES
2020: Dunant - US-FR
2021: EllaLink - BR-PT
2020: Havfrue/AEC-2 - US-{IE,DK,NO}
2022: Grace Hopper US-{UK,ES}
2022: Amitie US-{UK,FR}
The US-Europe links built in the 1998-2003 era are still working fine,
but they're getting on in life and won't last the decade. All the future
builds appear to have the option of bypassing the UK entirely. So, not
an issue for UK law per-se, but it does raise issues about where and how
traffic will flow in future.
Nick
