3 submarine cable landing points in Barbados. View coordinates, connected cables, and detailed location info.
Barbados has three submarine cable landing points located in Bridgetown, Needham’s Point, and Pegwell. These landing points connect the country to three undersea cables that facilitate international internet connectivity.
The longest cable serving Barbados is the Southern Caribbean Fiber, which has been in service since 2006 and spans 3,000 kilometers. It connects Barbados to Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Montserrat. The newest cable is the X-Link Submarine Cable, operational since 2019, with a length of 775 kilometers, linking Barbados to Guyana. The Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS), in service since 1995 and measuring 1,730 kilometers, connects Barbados to Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, and Martinique.
The main internet service providers in Barbados by user base are Flow (Columbus) and Digicel Barbados. The country is classified as having vulnerable resilience, meaning it depends on one or two cables for connectivity. One outage was recorded by GeoCables in the last 90 days, occurring on September 27, 2026.
Every cable that lands in this country, with live latency on its page.
Cables landing here whose break would hurt this country most, by our cable graph.
No single cable break would cut this country off: alternatives exist for every cable.
| Name | Connected Cables |
|---|---|
| Bridgetown, Barbados › | 1 |
| Needham’s Point, Barbados › | 1 |
| Pegwell, Barbados › | 1 |
Internet status by provider and the resilience of the country's cable connectivity.
Barbados has 3 submarine cables and 3 landing points in the GeoCables database. The ones with the most landing points here are Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS), Southern Caribbean Fiber, X-Link Submarine Cable.
The oldest cable in service is Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) (1995), the newest is X-Link Submarine Cable (2019).
By our cable graph no single break cuts Barbados off. The largest effect comes from X-Link Submarine Cable: up to plus 7.6 ms towards Kenya. We count paths and milliseconds, not capacity.
At the last check (2026-11-04 10:07 UTC) the internet in Barbados was working normally. Providers and history