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Ah the high sea, the place particularly famous for having good internet connection, yes
When you're spending this much money on something like this, running new undersea cable is trivial.
Is it tho? Can a roaming/floating thing be attached to a optic fiber cord?
If it's a stationary platform or a barge that's parked in a location for a while, absolutely. It's basically the same as how submarine internet cables between continents work.
Ah ok,
it's slightly different because a floating platform is more susceptible to storms. it's pretty expensive to repair those lines when they're connected to a platform that inevitably gets battered about by a hurricane and the cables get damaged.
That is true, but it's what Google and a few other operators do. Usually oil rigs will use satellite, but they're not usually going to need the same sort of bandwidth