I think the biggest difference between what the IP transit providers have described is that PCCW is also a major middle-mile and last-mile provider in Hong Kong. You'll find their 100Mbps to gigabit class end user service in apartments, condos and office buildings throughout the city.
The non-HK based transit providers that would be in a top-40 CAIDA ASRANK size are generally *not* operators of last mile connectivity within the city. On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 2:54 PM nanoguser99 via NANOG <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 > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com/> Secure Email. > >
