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> with the majority of the world's population

I'm having trouble getting past 4B with terrestrial links.

China + India + Pakistan + Bangladesh + Russia (ignoring spanning the country) + Egypt + Vietnam + Thailand + Turkey + Myanmar + South Korea + Iraq + Afghanistan = 4.002

That's a lot of gnarly land to link.

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You're counting Egypt but not everybody else in Africa?

Maybe the poster believes the other Africans don't use internet?

Maybe poster was trying to see the feasibility of the post he was replying to.

>> any country on the Eurasian landmass doesn't need submarine cables at all to have direct fiber...

There's a big difference between Nigeria and Egypt, via terrestrial links, to east/south Asia.

Of course we don't - this comment is being relayed via ham radio from South Africa to the Antarctic, where thankfully the German research team has a satellite uplink.

And none of the ~0.5B in the EU counts as EUrasia?

India and China are contiguous and contain 2.8b people.

I started there.

(Indonesia would have helped, but we didn't want subsea cabling... and kind of hard to get there without)

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