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Endnotes

1 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization, ‘The State of Broadband: Leveraging AI for Universal Connectivity’.
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2 C. Bogmans et al., ‘Power Hungry: How AI Will Drive Energy Demand’. Available at: https://
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-Energy -Demand -566304

3 International Telecommunication Union (ITU), ‘Global Connectivity Report 2022’. Available
at: https:// www .itu .int/ itu -d/ reports/ statistics/ global -connectivity -report2022 -
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ‘Networking for a New Era of Global Satellite
Connectivity’. Available at: https:// www .ll .mit .edu/ r -d/ projects/ networking -new -era -global
-satellite -connectivity
5 ITU Study Group 15. Available at: https:// www .itu .int/ en/ ITU -T/ about/ groups/ 2028 -2025/
Pages/ sg15 .aspx
6 ITU SG 13, ‘Networks, Technologies and Infrastructures for Transport, Access and Home’.
Available at: https:// www .itu .int/ en/ ITU -T/ about/ groups/ 2028 -2025/ Pages/ sg13 .aspx
7 Recommendation ITU-T Y.3201. Available at: https:// www .itu .int/ rec/ T -REC -Y .3201/ en?

8 ITU SG 15, ‘Networks, Technologies and Infrastructures for Transport, Access and Home’.
Available at: https:// www .itu .int/ en/ ITU -T/ wtsa20/ presentations/ Documents/ ITU -T20 %SG20
%15Chairman20 %WTSA20 %20Presentation .pdf

9 Cisco, “Cisco 2024 AI Readiness Index”. Available at: Cisco AI Readiness Index.

10 S. Parsaeefard, I. Tabrizian and A. Leon-Garcia, ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AI-aaS)
on Software-Defined Infrastructure’. Available at: https:// ieeexplore .ieee .org/ document/
8931372

11 Y. Fu, S. Wang, C. X. Wang, X. Hong and S. McLaughlin, ‘Artificial Intelligence to Manage
Network Traffic of 5G Wireless Networks’. Available at: https:// ieeexplore .ieee .org/
document/ 8553655

12 L. Burdette, ‘How Many Submarine Cables Are There, Anyway?’. Available at: https:// blog
.telegeography .com/ how -many -submarine -cables -are -there -anyway

13 R. Chataut, ‘Undersea cables are the unseen backbone of the global internet’. Available
at: https:// theconversation .com/ undersea -cables -are -the -unseen -backbone -of -the -global
-internet226300 -

14 TeleGeography, ‘State of the Network 2025’. Available at: https:// www2 .telegeography .com/
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p2ANqtz9 - aNU0ukhY6x eC0kbGPJqO _ 85QDRsZgTo FyvE7DRtlJ oSLURkEgim - 6kwPBVF3tJ
FRcHG2flBv sAx0vUTawn ibH9s8uD03 -QcQKub39CuRjfCuG3jo & _hsmi = 343529837 & utm
_content = 343529837 & utm _source = hs _automation

15 World Economic Forum, ‘Sovereign AI: What it is, and 6 strategic pillars for achieving it’.
Available at: https:// www .weforum .org/ stories/ 04/ 2024/ sovereign -ai -what -is -ways -states
-building/

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