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August 19, 2012 at 8:48 pm

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12 Asian telcos and (according to some sources) investment from Facebook and Google have funded a big submarine cable in Asia

here is the BBC’s route

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19275490

and this is a local tech website from Singapore

http://sgentrepreneurs.com/commentary/2012/08/14/mysteries-surround-facebooks-asia-submarine-cable-express-project

Quite frankly I trust the Asian reporter to know where the cables actually are (it would be pointless not to extend them to CN and VT and there locations would be published so mariners charts can be updated and no one fouls their anchor on one) but why are the BBC leaving out half the story?

Anyone with half a brain and basic knowledge of Asian culture isn’t naïve enough to think the traffic won’t be censored and prioritised for business (rather than high school kids exchanging hardstyle and cantopop remixes) and heavily monitored and traffic shaped anyway, and that Google and Farcebook won’t dissent if it would mean their traffic got blocked so why try and hide the China and Viet Nam links?

Probably lazy reporting but doesn’t do Auntie any good, at best it makes them look like chumps, at worst you get the tinfoil hat conspiracy theories from the political right saying they are “in with communists” :crazy_diz
August 27, 2012 at 1:25 am

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@General Lighting 492207 wrote:

but why are the BBC leaving out half the story?

Anyone with half a brain and basic knowledge of Asian culture isn’t naïve enough to think the traffic won’t be censored and prioritised for business (rather than high school kids exchanging hardstyle and cantopop remixes) and heavily monitored and traffic shaped anyway, and that Google and Farcebook won’t dissent if it would mean their traffic got blocked so why try and hide the China and Viet Nam links?

Because… that would be admitting that the Imperialist Capitalist Running Dogs are actually signing trade deals with the Glorious People’s Republics of Etc etc etc…

… mind you, bearing in mind that Japan, Taiwan and the Phillipines are also part of the backbone, I really don’t think it will be a problem providing uplink and downlink via satellite to the North American continent.

What it really boils down to is, an increase in local capacity around South East Asia. Giving the number of people in South East Asia, they could probably do with the bandwidth more than most other regions.
August 27, 2012 at 1:47 pm

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the same BBC which gutted out most of its studios, sold the British kit to the broadcasters of former Soviet nations (as they are now all EBU members) and replaced it with “Japanese” kit made in China :laugh_at:

@Pat McDonald 492823 wrote:

What it really boils down to is, an increase in local capacity around South East Asia. Giving the number of people in South East Asia, they could probably do with the bandwidth more than most other regions.

yep my mums popped over to visit and is she getting no circuits error trying to call relatives in MY as its Hari Raya / Eid – though we aren’t Muslims many folk there are and they tend to exchange phone calls with relatives (often in East Anglia and London) as part of these celebrations.

The folk runnign the telcos aren’t as harsh as many think, the kids will still be able to exchange their hardstyle and cantopop remixes, just that they will set the traffic shaping to allow it after they should have done their homework :laugh_at:
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