Elon Musk claimed that SpaceX's V4 Starlink satellites, with 100 lasers per satellite operating at 10 Tbps each, could outcompete undersea cables due to their speed and redundancy, according to an X post cited in the report.
The report noted that ~100,000 V4 satellites could achieve around 100 million Tbps of cumulative throughput, far exceeding the global undersea cable network's around 6.4 petabits per second capacity, while Iran-linked ships were observed near Gulf of Oman cables, raising security concerns.