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Compared to laying cable at sea, burying it on land is simple: dig a ditch, lay in plastic or steel tubes, and thread the cable. It is on land that high-tech meets low-income, trading dive rigs and robots for picks and shovels wielded under widely varying conditions. While agreements between large companies like FLAG and CAT are typically formal and transparent, those between successive layers of subcontractors may become much less so. The average wage in Thailand at the time of the FLAG dig was approximately $1.10 per hour (compared to $7 per hour in nearby Singapore).
Photo: Alex Tehrani
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