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We asked the PCCW guys the same question. They evaded the question.

There are 3 separate undersea electricity tunnels from Lamma to HK Island, built by HK Electric, large enough to walk through, but for their own communications ONLY. I've tried - unsuccessfully so far - to get in there for a photo shoot.

Basically, it seems that Hutchison Telecom/HK Electric can't collaborate well enough with the other part (2 sons/rivals) of the Li Ka-shing empire, Richard Li's HKT/PCCW/Netvigator/NOW TV part. That's why using the cable tunnels for public broadband/fibre seems a non-starter for every insider I talked to. But I might be wrong...

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I thought there are not any tunnels across the strait; just cable laid on the sea bottom. Could not find any such info on the Internet. Actually, HKE map shows existing cable tunnels - no tunnel under the sea.

https://www.hkelectric.com/en/MediaReso ... nts/CT.pdf


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That would be great if there were walkable tunnels or tunnel to HK but I still doubt that. Not sure how many cable routes are there. I talked to a person involved in the construction of the first link i.e. the one with the very steep descend from the Wind Turbine area. Certainly this cable was not in the tunnel.
The other one along the YSW bay to Pak Kok and further to HK is on the note below. The technology was simultaneous trenching and direct laying. This is just a notification of the project. Could be that the design/method was changed. I could not find any more information.

http://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/2001 ... 405983.pdf

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Quite a few new developments about Lamma Internet in the new and very active Islands Broadband Concern Group 離島寬頻關注小組:

- The co. who actually built the HGC fibre network on Lamma (Top Express) is doing tests soon with a cross-Lamma Channel radio link (see details in group above). Home users potentially in a few years, perhaps.
According to 3, the only location on Lamma currently available on their HGC broadband fibre network is 3-4 First Street, Sok Kwu Wan, the building just to the right (see map below) of the middle SKW ferry pier. Checking it out soon...

- PCCW is working on Vectoring Provision for their existing Lamma/Outlying Islands broadband network, according to multiple media reports and internal sources. Double-digit broadband speeds would become possible. Tests could start next year, but might cost at least $5K per home to install.

- A startup might be testing new cross-Lamma channel microwave links next year. Commercial service for end-users in the future, maybe.

In the meantime, I spent much of Saturday afternoon with senior guys in 3 telcos about how to get faster, affordable Internet on Lamma.
Short answer: Any more than the enforced data cap of your mobile plan costs you a lot of extra cash and often has severe speed restrictions (0.1-0.4 Mbps), no Wifi/1 mobile-only, and needs one extra (sometimes several temporary) SIM card(s) in a 2nd mobile phone.
If you're willing and capable to pay a lot more for faster Internet ($500+/month), there are a number of restrictive options from various telco providers.

So I'll have to live with my strict 5+1GB data cap a while longer, at $248.

This means no large up/downloads for me during the day, just at night, via unlimited data on our standard 3Mbps Netvigator broadband ($218). But during the day for everything else, my Wifi hotspot on 4G connection flies. See Speedtest below while typing this post. So I'm currently one of the rare, temporarily quite happy Internet users on Lamma.

We'll be staying here with our great 4G reception and stable PCCW Broadband for at least another 2 years, and then we'll reevaluate. Maybe there'll be other Internet options by then, but I won't hold my breath.
When you're looking at moving flats, always test the 3/4G speed inside the flats, varies from none to great even within the same village house!

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I still miss my former IPTV, 396 worldwide channels for $100/month, 1st year free. Mainland China cut it off.

Here's a little info (plus my impressions from the recent PCCW senior techie meeting) from the friendly guy who just installed our NOW TV, special pack for Lamma Island customers, $174 for minimum 2 Channel Packs.

Vectoring Provision for Lamma:
Ca. 30Mbps for Lamma's future vDSL, no fibre, same copper cables and existing microwave link (with new hardware) on top of Po Wah Yuen, but expensive new modems and probably higher cost/month.
No schedule known or announced to the engineers yet, probably stuck at the higher levels and in the marketing of PCCW. Maybe next year, but their finance people might kill the idea as "unprofitable".

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Dismayed to find out today that the evil PCCW charge 700$ for a new account set up, on top of the obviously overpriced 298/month. :-(

thinking of not even getting internet now ......

What a load of BS!


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For those few that have been back and forth on this, based on the article provided where a community in Washington created their own high-speed internet option I am trying to get some information together about how we might do such and the relevant issues in ensuring the proper speeds and bandwidth...

I don't want to use the Islands Broadband Concern Group without permission but was wondering if, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, with whom do I contact to see if we can work together on this?


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I'm at 138 Tai Peng.
I know that China Mobile doesn't work at all around here.
There is a cell tower on the roof of 129, a few yards away, but I don't know who it belongs to. They don't put any signs on it, probably to prevent being asked for compensation by those who believe it gives them cancer.

Unlike other countries where cell towers are a matter of public record, here TELA considers it confidential. Even though anyone can see them and if you have the right gear you can read their callsigns -- I've been looking for something that works on a smartphone, but so far only find things that tell you about the cell you are connected to.

There are tower mapping sites but the info they give for local areas is obviously wrong.

If you still have the modem you used for SmarTone you might get more info from that, I had a friend with that for a while and when setting it up the router showed a bunch of available signals and their strength.


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Ah cool info thanks Alan. Will try giving Smart tone a call later and see what they have to say!


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There must be an app for that?

Many people would love that!

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Let me ask around with some experts...

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Not successful in finding a solution for checking OTHER service providers' signal strength from your mobile phone.

Anybody got a solution?

In the meantime, I'll continue to use my 3 mobile hotspot for my home office PC, see below right now.
But down the road, it's Emergency Calls Only on 3 and other networks, no data at all, just standard broadband.

My speeds are fine and fast for regular home office work, but after 6GB/month data cap, it's nighttime up/downloads via 3Mbps PCCW Broadband...

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