Internet by continent
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Antarctic research stations run on satellite with scheduled windows rather than an always-on link
Why the web in most African languages is a few thousand pages rather than a market
Latin America's mobile-first users skipped fixed broadband which skews every per-capita connectivity statistic
African traffic lands through submarine cables on the coast which leaves landlocked countries paying for transit twice
Asian traffic once crossed the Pacific twice to reach a neighbor until regional internet exchanges kept it local
Several Pacific island states depend on a single cable so one dragged anchor can silence the whole country
Latin American traffic to its own neighbors often routes through Miami which adds latency to a short hop
Europe's density made cross-border fiber cheap which is why roaming inside the EU had to be legislated away instead
Middle East cables funnel through a few maritime chokepoints so one cut slows several countries at once
North America's remaining gap is rural while Europe's is more often about speed tiers than availability
Landlocked Central Asian networks depend on transit through Russia or China which sets both price and politics
Penetration in Europe passes 90 percent while sub-Saharan Africa sits below 40 which is why satellite ISPs target the latter
Why the cloud region map still shows one continent with almost no data centers
Prepaid data and mobile money made the phone the first internet device across much of Africa and South Asia
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