The Vatican City State, though the world’s smallest country, boasts a modern telecommunications system. It controls its own top-level internet domain .va and nearly all of its roughly 800 residents have internet access, with cellular phones widely used in daily life mesacc.edu. Over the past few decades, the Vatican has steadily embraced digital connectivity –…
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Palestine – encompassing the West Bank and Gaza Strip – has made strides in expanding internet access, but it lags behind global and regional standards due to unique political and infrastructural challenges en.wikipedia.org. Decades of Israeli occupation and the terms of the Oslo Accords have constrained the development of telecommunications, limiting spectrum access and hindering…
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Infrastructure and Major Service Providers Yemen’s internet infrastructure is limited and highly centralized. The backbone relies on a few aging international connections and an outdated domestic network. A single subsea cable – the FALCON/FLAG system landing at the Red Sea port of Hodeidah – carries most of Yemen’s bandwidth ukraine.wilsoncenter.org washingtoninstitute.org. In fact, almost all…
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