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Limits RegistryTAT-8, built by a consortium led by AT&T, France Télécom and British Telecom with technology from AT&T Bell Laboratories, entered service in 1988, linking the United States with the United Kingdom and France. It carried 280 Mbit/s — about 40,000 telephone circuits — at an initial cost of about US$335 million, and was retired in 2002.
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TAT-8, built by a consortium led by AT&T, France Télécom and British Telecom with technology from AT&T Bell Laboratories, entered service in 1988, linking the United States with the United Kingdom and France. It carried 280 Mbit/s — about 40,000 telephone circuits — at an initial cost of about US$335 million, and was retired in 2002.
The year the first transatlantic submarine cable using optical fibers began carrying traffic.
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Limits Registry. LR-TAT-8-FIRST-TRANSATLANTIC-FIBER-CABLE. First transatlantic fiber-optic cable (TAT-8). 2026.