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Some interesting places that caught my eye: - Cocos Islands has their own cable and they don't even have 600 people; - Saint Helena has its own cable (googled
by forinti 5y ago
Some interesting places that caught my eye:
- Cocos Islands has their own cable and they don't even have 600 people;
- Saint Helena has its own cable (googled to find out it is very recent and will start offering 18Gbps in 2022);
- French Polynesia seems well served.
Tristan da Cunha and Pitcairn probably will never get their cables.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoSt. Helena has been lobbying for years to get one. I was glad to see that finally working out for them.
- myself248 5y agoI suspect that some of those places host strategically important communications facilities. Perhaps spy satellite downlink facilities, perhaps GNSS ground-segment base stations, perhaps earth stations for other communications satellites. Oddly, those two specific islands don't. Saint Helena is specifically courting such business, but I don't see any indication that they've attracted anyway. But several other small islands are definitely fibered-up on account of their satellite facilities.