1 submarine cable landing points in Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. View coordinates, connected cables, and detailed location info.
Ascension and Tristan da Cunha has one submarine cable landing point located at Rupert's Bay on Saint Helena. The territory is connected by the Equiano cable, which became ready for service in 2023. This cable spans 15,000 kilometers and links Ascension and Tristan da Cunha to Namibia, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, and Togo. The Equiano cable is owned by Google.
The primary internet service provider in the territory by user count is Starlink, with 2,817 users. Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is classified as having fragile connectivity, meaning it depends on a single cable for internet access. GeoCables recorded one outage in the last 90 days, with the most recent occurring on September 18, 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.
Single point of failure: without Equiano the country has no other submarine path in the graph.
| Name | Connected Cables |
|---|---|
| Rupert's Bay, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha › | 1 |
Internet status by provider and the resilience of the country's cable connectivity.
Ascension and Tristan da Cunha has 1 submarine cables and 1 landing points in the GeoCables database.
By our cable graph, Equiano is a single point of failure: without it Ascension and Tristan da Cunha has no other submarine path. We count paths and milliseconds, not capacity.
At the last check (2026-11-04 10:11 UTC) the internet in Ascension and Tristan da Cunha was working normally. Providers and history