«We don't need another Whitehall stitch - up, we need a fundamental review of how laws written for copper telephone cables are being used to trawl millions of innocent peoples» communications. (politics.co.uk)
The cable itself resembles an oversized, circular wire similar to a conventional telephone cable, except supersized. (fortune.com)
The difference: in 1956 there were 50 telephone circuits available on the first Trans Atlantic Telephone cable laid across the Atlantic. (religion-online.org)