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A presentation about the internet connectivity in Nepal can be found here. Recently Nepal Telecom struck a deal with Indian BSNL so now the land locked Nepal will have access optic fibre, which previously was largly dependent on VSAT. Here is the complete story Out of the nodes that PingER monitors in Nepal one is connected through Indian BSNL (koshi.ioe.edu.np) with a average RTT of 330 ms. The other one is connected directly to New York through a Satellite link (most.gov.np) with an average RTT of 550 ms.
Afghanistan
We got three sites in Afghanistan and they were quite hard to get. Also of the three sites have min RTT greater than 700 ms which indicates that they are on satellite.
UseFul Links
- 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
- http://www.telegeography.com/
- http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm