Fibre cuts the Mediterranean were reported by many sources including the BBC, also Blomberg News, Al Jazeera, Orange and Wired on December 19th 20092008, also see the article in Wikipedia. We decided to have a look at the impact on ping performance using the PingER data.
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Country | Residual_Bandwidth_Fraction | Internet Users (from Internet World Stats) |
Oman | 1.89% | 0.2M |
Sudan | 2.79% | 1.5M |
Cape Verde | 3.26% | 0.025M |
Egypt | 3.72% | 8.6M |
Jordan | 4.06% | 0.6M |
Bahrain | 8.24% | 0.2M |
Sri Lanka | 19.41% | 0.280M |
Ethiopia | 24.03% | 0.113M |
Pakistan | 24.32% | 12M |
Reunion-French Colony | 26.21% | 0.2M |
Libya Arab Jamahiriya | 28.72% | 0.205M |
Bangladesh | 28.89% | 0.300M |
United Arab Emirates | 31.04% | 1.7M |
Malta | 31.28% |
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