Eric, none of the carriers you mention in HK has local connection, other HK 
ISPs will route to US if they don’t peer with you.

Currently we are using NTT and Telstra, which has good connectivity in Asia 
except mainland China.

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+david=xtom....@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Eric Dugas 
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Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2021 3:12 AM
To: nanoguser99 <nanoguse...@protonmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Carrier Options in Hong Kong

I am in no way an expert in APAC but all of the IP carriers I have in NA are 
present in HK: Cogent, Tata, Telia, Zayo.

My guess is a good portion of the interconnections with other IP carriers, CDNs 
and such will be either in Singapore or Tokyo.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 1:56 PM nanoguser99 via NANOG 
<nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org>> wrote:
Nanog,

Currently my organization uses PCCW which we pay through the nose for and I'm 
looking to cut them.  This was put in place before me.  I was informed that 
PCCW is "the carrier" in Hong Kong but based on my analysis I'm not sure that's 
the case.  My analysis of carriers such as Lumen and Cogent put them on par 
with PCCW.  Pings to random IPs in HK are reasonable fast on all of them, same 
with pings to cloud providers.   Access to mainland is not a hard requirement 
but just to check they all had 300+ ms latency to known IPs in Shanghai and 
Tanjin.

I know some regions such as Korea or Dubai are monopolized where the wrong 
carrier takes you on a far away path to get a few blocks down the street.

I don't need anything special, just general DIA and good access to eyeballs and 
internet.  I just wanted to see people's opinions here as APAC connectivity can 
be tricky.

- Nanoguser99

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