> I'm not sure what the path to equatorial Africa is for example, but I can imagine it being bad and not direct at all I realized that I didn't actually know,

> I'm not sure what the path to equatorial Africa is for example, but I can imagine it being bad and not direct at all I realized that I didn't actually know, either. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/TeleGeography-submarine-cable-map.jpg https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Te... I don't know how credible this map is, but it appears to match all the others I was able to find in a quick image search. I picked this one because it's larger and shows more detail than some of the others. It looks like equatorial Africa is reasonably well connected to the Americas and Europe. I'm sure connectivity is crap once you get out of the large coastal cities, but on the other hand it's pretty crap in Alaska and the Canadian interior, too (at least before Starlink came along).