Talk:Australian external territories/@comment-32750096-20190619070752/@comment-24682153-20190621210906

Hi Timmy. The Australian overseas territories were regrouped and gathered in this one article. It's simply not worth it to have each group of islands on the same level as the continent of Australia. The connectivity situtation has somewhat improved by the introduction of the Sky Muster Satellite system which covers these islands bringing for the first time affordable internet bandwidth to some of them. The situation is not so clear as on some islands groups only a few single islands are covered by a mobile network. These islands received very little interest here and we don't get much feedback by visitors. In other cases I'd added it to the country which they are attached to. But the Australian article is already quite extensive and the average Australian vistitor is probably not interested in these special areas. So I merged all the attached islands to one new article and gathered them under this new name.

To be honest, we simply don't know the situation on every of these islands and it may be quite variable. That's why I assumed to collect this information in one article and Greylist them. So that visitors may enquire locally and may tell us what they have found out. To simply Blacklist them, is too hard as from many places we have heard improvements after the launch of the Sky Muster programme.

The only island that I couldn't include is Tokelau as it's not connected to Australia but to New Zealand instead. Tokelau which is also quite uncertain about its status, was added to the bottom of the NZ article. This is simply because the NZ article is not too long with only 4 operators and Tokelau is the only NZ-attached area.