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🇸🇭 A remarkable story in the confluence of cables & constellations: how @OneWeb by its interest to build a gateway in the South Atlantic facilitated funding for St Helena's submarine cable & how @Starlink then forced the island monopolist to actually let islanders use the cable.
In my latest blog post for @kentikinc, I cover Saint Helena's historic submarine cable activation and tell the story of the years-long advocacy work by @ConnectStHelena to make this development a reality.
kentik.com/blog/ending-saint…
Connect St Helena! retweeted
In my latest blog post for @kentikinc, I cover Saint Helena's historic submarine cable activation and tell the story of the years-long advocacy work by @ConnectStHelena to make this development a reality.
kentik.com/blog/ending-saint…
Connect St Helena! retweeted
Impressive -- looks like its up as much as 70x as compared to the past week: radar.cloudflare.com/traffic…
Connect St Helena! retweeted
Induced demand for Internet in Saint Helena of about 10x (radar.cloudflare.com/AS21084…)
ALT Screenshot of Cloudflare Radar for AS210841 (Sure Saint Helena ISP) showing large increase of HTTP traffic since October 1st, the day the submarine cable section was turned on
BREAKING NEWS: As of early this morning, the South Atlantic island of St Helena is now sending traffic over their new subsea cable branch to @Google's Equiano cable.
@kentikinc synthetics saw a dramatic drop in latency from AWS in London: 657ms → 131ms!
kentik.com/analysis/saint-he…
🇸🇭Today marks a historical moment for St Helena island in the South Atlantic Ocean. In the early morning hours, the island's connection to @Google's Equiano cable was activated, bringing 4500 people into the broadband age. Tune in to the initial reactions:
youtu.be/meJQ6dKtMGU
Connect St Helena! retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: As of early this morning, the South Atlantic island of St Helena is now sending traffic over their new subsea cable branch to @Google's Equiano cable.
@kentikinc synthetics saw a dramatic drop in latency from AWS in London: 657ms → 131ms!
kentik.com/analysis/saint-he…
St Helena finally activates its link to @Google's Equiano cable funded by €21.5m grant from @EU_Commission but telecoms monopolist remains, continues to limit data allowance on some tariffs despite 100Gbps IRU to Portugal paid for by European taxpayers:
sainthelena.gov.sh/2023/news…
Connect St Helena! retweeted
🇸🇭 @StHelenaGovt warns public not to use @Starlink as it contravenes exclusivity of the island's telecoms monopolist, Sure South Atlantic, which in turn is building a @OneWeb gateway. Violations after 01-NOV-2023 may result in confiscation of equipment.
sainthelena.gov.sh/2023/news…
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🇸🇭Saints' bittersweet view of Equiano RFS :
“@SEACOM are now using the fastest direct data transmission route
between Africa and Europe…lucky @SEACOM users.
In StHelena we pay £17,000 a quarter for NOT using our Equiano branch”…🙄 @StHelenaGovt
🔎p4: independent.sh/wp-content/up…
15MAR23 • Equiano cable goes live between 🇿🇦 and 🇵🇹
📈Breaking News ❗️
Despatch from Our Man in 🇿🇦Cape Town ❗️
@Seacom just activated their own 12 Tbps fiber pair ExpressRoute over Equiano cable, now live between 🇿🇦 Melkbosstrand and 🇵🇹 Sesimbra.
📃 seacom.com/equiano/?utm_sour…
Connect St Helena! retweeted
15MAR23 • Equiano cable goes live between 🇿🇦 and 🇵🇹
📈Breaking News ❗️
Despatch from Our Man in 🇿🇦Cape Town ❗️
@Seacom just activated their own 12 Tbps fiber pair ExpressRoute over Equiano cable, now live between 🇿🇦 Melkbosstrand and 🇵🇹 Sesimbra.
📃 seacom.com/equiano/?utm_sour…
Connect St Helena! retweeted
05SEP22 • Equiano 🌍Europe-Africa - Towards Final Splice
Following 🇿🇦Melkbosstrand landing,
🇫🇷🚢CS Ile de Sein slowly deployed ≈200km 🧭WSW section for 28d.
Now, picking up speed 🧭NW closing the final gap to Southern trunk tail buoy.
@ASN_comm @ConnectStHelena @OpenServeZA
9 months after its first landfall in #StHelena Google's Equiano cable was landed in Europe today.
24MAY22 • Equiano 🌍 Europe-Africa cable landing - 🇵🇹Sesimbra
Breaking Despatch from our Girl in 🇵🇹Sesimbra ! 😉
🇫🇷🚢CS Ile de Sein just landed Equiano on Sesimbra BMH
Actual Golden-buoy reached shore this morning 😎
@ConnectStHelena @ASN_comm @Google @altice_portugal
Connect St Helena! retweeted
15JAN22 Equiano cable 🌍 Europe-Africa Phase #2 Reloaded
📈Breaking News !
Hope yet again for Equiano deployment !
🇬🇧🚢CS Recorder, chock-a-block with a ≈7,680km cable load, underway
to a fairly explicit AIS destination "EQUIANO CABLE ROUTE"…😉
@ConnectStHelena @jlvuillemin
While @BBCWorld & @bbcweather never reacted to below proposal from 2018, @SkyNews now show the British Overseas Territory of #StHelena 🇸🇭 located in the middle of the S. Atlantic in their weather map raising awareness for one of the UK's remotest communities & @metoffice stations
@BBCWorld @bbcweather Would it be possible to add the British Overseas Territory of St Helena to your weather maps as in below pic? Would fill the blank South Atlantic with some data and be of general interest. @metoffice run a weather station there, so data should be available.
Connect St Helena! retweeted
The GCRA has accused Sure and JT of an 'illegal' deal to divide up control of the Channel Islands' mobile networks between them. Both operators deny any anti-competitive practices, with Sure saying it plans on appealing through the Royal Court. islandfm.com/news/guernsey/s…
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25NOV21•Equiano cable 🌍 Europe-Africa Phase #1 🇸🇭news
@StHelenaGovt quarters much alarmed by recent @Google’s Economic Impact Assessment of Equiano Cable failing to mention 🇸🇭branch
📰 independent.sh/wp-content/up…
Rumours now circulate about 🇸🇭branch RFS deferred to Q4 2022…🙄
Connect St Helena! retweeted
20NOV21•Equiano cable 🌍 Europe-Africa Phase #1 • 🇪🇸news
Drone 🚁📸 despatch from our man in 🇪🇸Arinaga❗️
🇳🇱🚢freighter Douwe-S pulling away from 🇮🇹🚢CS Teliri,
cable transpooling just completed.
Eagerly waiting for next sailing destination…🤔
@ConnectStHelena @jlvuillemin
🇸🇭2 months after @Google's #Equiano cable lands in #StHelena @OneWeb announces it has chosen the island as one of a few strategic places for a ground station to cover South Atlantic incl. #TristanDaCunha & #Ascension, will become major bandwidth & electricity consumer.
📷@QuadSat
Another update from @OneWeb in today's @helena_indy newspaper (independent.sh/wp-content/up…): company waits for green light from @StHelenaGovt for its ground station on #StHelena which could extend storm-resilient broadband to #TristandaCunha the UK's remotest community by early 2023
