16/12/2025
🌐 PNG’s internet future looks bright🇵🇬
Google is set to lead a US$120 million undersea cable for Papua New Guinea, funded by Australia under the Pukpuk Partnership. This is hard infrastructure — the kind that decides whether a country can compete or fall behind 🌊📡
So how does this stack up against Starlink, which many people already rely on?
🚀 Starlink delivers speed fast. It works in the bush, on islands, and in places fibre may never reach. But it comes at a price — higher monthly costs, shared capacity, and performance that can dip as user numbers grow.
🌊 Undersea cables do the heavy lifting. They carry huge volumes of data, run steadily day and night, and push costs down over time. The downside is simple: they take years to build and mean nothing if onshore networks are weak or mismanaged.
👉 This is not Starlink versus subsea cable.
Starlink keeps remote PNG connected.
Subsea cable powers cities, businesses, hospitals, schools, and national growth.
The real issue isn’t the cable — it’s whether leaders ensure the capacity is distributed properly, priced fairly, and reaches people outside Port Moresby.
This project gives PNG a chance.
What matters now is ex*****on. 📶🇵🇬
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