When a long, undersea telecommunications cable corrodes allowing seawater ingress, which outcome impacts signal integrity?

💡 Explanation

Increased capacitance arises because seawater intrusion raises the effective dielectric constant, thereby decreasing the cable's impedance. This rise in capacitance dominates, therefore pulse spreading occurs rather than reflection from resistive losses or faraday shielding.

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