This will have a huge effect on the materials cost of laying fibre, no need to run electricity and/or lasers to boost / reframe the signal on long undersea cabl

This will have a huge effect on the materials cost of laying fibre, no need to run electricity and/or lasers to boost / reframe the signal on long undersea cables. This means the cable itself will be much cheaper to manufacture, and it will be a smaller diameter meaning somewhat cheaper to lay.