The Gulf's Quest for Digital Sovereignty The recent flurry of activity around subsea cable systems in the Gulf region is less about building new infrastructure and more about escaping existing chokepoints.
Europe Asia data traffic has long been funneled through a narrow corridor of cables and fibre networks converging at the Red Sea and Suez Canal region, making it vulnerable to disruption.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar are racing to build alternative routes that bypass these chokepoints altogether.