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Submarine cables in Christmas Island

1 submarine cable landing points in Christmas Island. View coordinates, connected cables, and detailed location info.

Christmas Island has one submarine cable landing point located in Flying Fish Cove. Four submarine cables are associated with this landing point, though not all are currently in service. The Australia-Singapore Cable (ASC), ready for service in 2018 and spanning 4,600 kilometers, is the longest operational cable connecting Christmas Island to Australia, Indonesia, and Singapore. Two cables, Bosun and TalayLink, are planned for service in 2027, with Bosun set to link to Australia and TalayLink connecting to Australia and Thailand. Another listed route, Dhivaru, includes potential connections to the Maldives and Oman, but its operational status and timeline remain unspecified.

No major internet service providers by user base are identified for Christmas Island. The island's connectivity is classified as vulnerable, meaning it depends on one or two cables for its internet infrastructure. GeoCables has recorded no outages in the past 90 days.

Submarine cable resilience index: 41/100 - vulnerable →

Submarine cables: Christmas Island (4)

Every cable that lands in this country, with live latency on its page.

Australia-Singapore Cable (ASC) (4 600 km, since 2018) Bosun (since 2027) Dhivaru TalayLink (since 2027)

Vital cables for Christmas Island

Cables landing here whose break would hurt this country most, by our cable graph.

Single point of failure: without Australia-Singapore Cable (ASC) the country has no other submarine path in the graph.

Landing Points (1)

Name Latitude Longitude Connected Cables

Connectivity status

Internet status by provider and the resilience of the country's cable connectivity.

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Submarine cables in Christmas Island: questions and answers

How many submarine cables land in Christmas Island?

Christmas Island has 4 submarine cables and 1 landing points in the GeoCables database. The ones with the most landing points here are Australia-Singapore Cable (ASC), Bosun, Dhivaru.

What happens if a submarine cable to Christmas Island breaks?

By our cable graph, Australia-Singapore Cable (ASC) is a single point of failure: without it Christmas Island has no other submarine path. We count paths and milliseconds, not capacity.

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