The Economic Impact of Digital Connectivity

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 2:07 pm on 4 July 2018.

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Photo of Caroline Jones Caroline Jones UKIP 2:07, 4 July 2018

Cabinet Secretary, the Swansea Bay city deal is built around and dependent upon digital connectivity. In the initial business case for the city deal, a new terabit capacity transatlantic cable between New York and Oxwich Bay was proposed but never made it into the final deal. The new link would have put Swansea Bay region at the heart of a digital superhighway, not just delivering higher speeds and greater capacity but also, more importantly, lower latency. So, Cabinet Secretary, what happened to the new transatlantic cable?