Vodafone boss on the threat to the world’s internet

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  One major telecommunications boss has a stark warning about the undersea cables that power our internet,

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  its world business expressed from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Liana Byrne.

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  Two days out from the UK's budget, what do we need to know?

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  And can Japan revive its chip making industry?

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  Yes,

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  the boss of one of Europe's biggest telecoms companies is warning of growing threats to undersea internet cables,

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  speaking exclusively to the BBC's Will Bain.

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  Vodafone CEO Margarita De La Valle is calling for a stronger international cooperation to keep that digital infrastructure secure.

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  regulation for telecoms is leading by example.

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  We see the regulatory environment in the EU also set for a change.

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  I think it will follow the example that the UK has opened up with our merger.

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  Thinking about the UK and Europe, though, you use the word competition.

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  I would also put on the table the word cooperation,

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  because we were talking earlier about how critical the security and resilience of our infrastructure to give you just a practical example,

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  Vodafone is the largest player across the whole of Europe on submarine cables.

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  We are one of the top 10 carriers of the world's internet traffic with our networks internationally.

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  It does make sense in areas like this to actually cooperate a cross-border within Europe for better security and resilience so that we can piggyback on each other within Europe to ensure that our networks are always resilient and effective even in a time of crisis.

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  And now more than ever with the threat that we've seen from Russia to those cables and all that kind of stuff as well,

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  it's not optional to work together anymore.

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