A Small Island Waits On Big Data Rates: Satellite operators salivate over access to Google's Equiano cable, but St. Helena's telecom monopoly stands in the way

Since 1989, the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic has relied on a single 7.6-meter satellite dish to connect the island's residents to the rest of the world. While the download and upload speeds have increased over the years, the roughly 4,500 Saints, as the island's residents call themselves, still share a measly 40-megabit-per-second downlink and a 14.4-Mb/s uplink to stay connected.