Lantau internet: More fibre on its way
South Lantau’s internet is finally starting to catch up to the rest of Hong Kong, with more fibre connectivity promised. Telco HGC and partner Top Express have just [...]
Broadband
Yes, high-speed broadband is spreading to the islands
There’s been a bit happening in the world of islands broadband. In Lantau the big news is that Top Express has finally started rolling out fibre in Mui Wo. The company [...]
Anonymous banners getting govt message out on Lantau development
A series of banners promoting the government’s ‘develop Lantau’ message have popped up all over South Lantau in the last three days. The unusual feature [...]
Fast broadband is arriving, slowly
High-speed internet via fibre connections to the home is on its way to South Lantau – but not from PCCW. Local firm Top Express, which specialises in building [...]
Report on HKT briefing
Yesterday (October 14th) the Islands Broadband Concern Group attended an informal background briefing from HKT’s Netvigator engineering and marketing teams on the islands [...]
Fixing our broadband problem
The SCMP gave the islands’ broadband problem a run today with this story: The Post had been alerted by Merrin Pearse’s complaint at the PCCW Facebook page after [...]
Barely broadband
Hong Kong’s digital divide is so wide that the outlying islands internet service barely qualifies as broadband. A survey by the Islands Broadband Concern Group survey [...]
Broadband outliers
It’s a 30-minute ferry ride from Central to Mui Wo, but the digital divide between Lantau and the rest of Hong Kong is much broader. The average broadband downlink on [...]
