Tomas Lamanauskas

Tomas Lamanauskas is the Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a specialized agency of the United Nations focused on issues related to information and communication technologies. He has recently been in the news discussing the primary causes of damage to undersea cables, emphasizing that 80 percent of these incidents are due to fishing and anchoring activities rather than sabotage. Lamanauskas highlights the importance of undersea cables in global communication, noting that they are crucial for the internet infrastructure, accounting for about 99 percent of global internet traffic.