11.   Now he is known as the telecommunications financier behind Global Crossing, an undersea cable operator that is building a worldwide network to transmit information via the Internet.

12.   Overseas calls today are carried both by satellites and undersea cables, he added.

13.   One of the marvels of technology was the laying of great undersea cables that let messages move by telegraph from Europe to America.

14.   That is why the telecommunications upstart Global Crossing, a Bermuda-based owner of undersea cables, recently agreed to merge with both U S West and Frontier.

15.   The plan would create the first fiber-optic undersea cable between China and the U.S.

16.   The swift transactions permitted by the undersea cable helped generate a surge of worldwide financial and economic ties that peaked on the eve of World War I.

17.   A break in one of the major undersea cables linking Asian telecommunications systems disrupted Internet service in Thailand Thursday, slowing access to e-mail and the World Wide Web.

18.   Asia Global Crossing, which operates undersea cables connecting six Asian countries, refused to comment on other details of the potential deal.

19.   Electricity generated by its turbines is to be carried to the cities of peninsular Malaysia by an undersea cable.

20.   India will also have to improve wiring in its cities and villages to fully take advantage of these new undersea cables.