Set the scene.
Those licences opened internet service provision to competition. Early providers used separate international connections, with relatively slow links of around 64 to 256 kilobits per second.
Here’s the twist.
Without local interconnection, an email between two Maltese subscribers might travel abroad and back. Nearby users did not necessarily have a short network journey.
Why it still matters.
Providers later worked towards a Malta Internet Exchange. The story of connecting an island also involves connecting networks within it.
🧠 One to think about +
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