3 submarine cable landing points in Sint Maarten. View coordinates, connected cables, and detailed location info.
Sint Maarten has three submarine cable landing points located at Great Bay Beach, Philipsburg, and Saint Maarten. These landing points connect the island to three international submarine cables, facilitating its internet and telecommunications infrastructure.
The longest cable serving Sint Maarten is the Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS), which has been in service since 1995 and spans 1,730 kilometers. It connects Sint Maarten to several countries, including Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, and Guadeloupe. The newest cable is the Saba, Statia Cable System (SSCS), operational since 2013 with a length of 198 kilometers. It links Sint Maarten to Sint Eustatius and Saba, Saint Barthélemy, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. The Sint Maarten Puerto Rico Network One (SMPR-1), in service since 2004, is 375 kilometers long and connects the island to Saint Martin and the United States.
The main internet service providers in Sint Maarten by user base are SMITCOMS N.V, New Technologies Group N.V, Starlink, and Coral Telecom N.V. The country is classified as having vulnerable resilience, meaning it depends on one or two cables for connectivity. No outages have been recorded in the last 90 days.
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 |
|---|---|
| Great Bay Beach, Sint Maarten › | 1 |
| Philipsburg, Sint Maarten › | 1 |
| Saint Maarten, Sint Maarten › | 1 |
Internet status by provider and the resilience of the country's cable connectivity.
Sint Maarten 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), Saba, Statia Cable System (SSCS), Sint Maarten Puerto Rico Network One (SMPR-1).
The oldest cable in service is Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) (1995), the newest is Saba, Statia Cable System (SSCS) (2013).
By our cable graph no single break cuts Sint Maarten off. The largest effect comes from Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS): up to plus 7.9 ms towards Portugal. We count paths and milliseconds, not capacity.
At the last check (2026-11-04 10:11 UTC) the internet in Sint Maarten was working normally. Providers and history