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Some very offbeat places like Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Madagascar(!) have lots of cable landings. Would it be safe to say that they have excellent Internet c
by computator 6y ago
Some very offbeat places like Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Madagascar(!) have lots of cable landings. Would it be safe to say that they have excellent Internet connectivity? I mean good bandwidth and reliable service, although latency to Europe or the USA may be high due to distance.
- dgrin91 6y agoSpeculation, but I would guess no. Having good service means you need an ISP that provides last mile service. You can't just directly plug into the undersea cables, and I doubt the places you listed have good ISPs
- zinekeller 6y agoAlso understated is that they are essentially transit points, so the bulk of bandwidth is dedicated to bigger places (more Asia-America and less in between).
- lumost 6y agoThe preponderance of interconnects is a necessary but insufficient condition for good internet. A good number of those lines will be allocated as dedicated circuit, private dedicated lines, and other purposes.
- Scoundreller 6y agoLook at what Saint Helena is going through. They're kicking in a bunch of extra bucks so that their island is a landing point for a cable under construction, but the minimum spend is for a 200gbi/s connection. https://spacenews.com/st-helena-looks-to-unlikely-patron-to-pay-its-subsea-cable-bill-the-satellite-industry/ https://spacenews.com/st-helena-looks-to-unlikely-patron-to-...