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Although we found two hosts in Maldives, but we are not sure they are in Maldives. This is an interesting report on Maldives Internet connectivity Maldives Internet Connectivity
[www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/cs/maldives/material/CS_MDV_part3.pdf |www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/cs/maldives/material/CS_MDV_part3.pdf . ]
This report suggests that Maldives is on satellite and the cost for connecting though optical fiber will be high due to its geographic location.
h2. MOSAIC The Global Diffusion of the Internet Project
They have done case studies on Internet for almost 30 countries including India and Pakistan. Although some of them are not recent, but some of the information here may be still relavent. http://mosaic.unomaha.edu/gdi.html