Subsea cables, which carry the world's data, are now central to the U. By the end of 2020, several consortium members, including Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited, India’s Bharti Airtel, Sri Lanka Telecom, France’s Orange and Telecom Egypt, told their partners they were having second thoughts about choosing HMN Tech as a supplier, mostly over the fear of sanctions. Team Telecom’s DeBacker said China uses similar tactics on undersea cables, declining to give specific examples