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 Alcatel's experience in Cambodia took place
amid larger business trends. The telecom bubble of the 1990s required
much collaboration between rich companies and poor laborers throughout
the developing world. This map shows the underwater and terrestrial
route of one company's completed network: FLAG, or Fiber-optic Link
Around the Globe. To understand how Alcatel competitor FLAG Telecom Ltd.
used global forces to turn a business idea into the world's longest phone cable,
click through the images in the order given.
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| Photos: Alex Tehrani, unless otherwise noted. |
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