Recommendations for ISPs around the world

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Dear colleagues,

I'm at a loss here. My current project is to find "good" transit providers
in those regions: South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asian-Pacific.

Requirements are simple:

  - good regional connectivity/peerings
  - fair reach to "mainland" Europe (London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt)
  - locations close to exchanges (so we can join there, too)

I'm thinking of using two transit ISPs per location (full BGP from our side,
of course).

I have considered MCI, BT Infonet, Verio, Reach, Sprint, for AP and/or Latin
America, but they of course all tell you that they are greatly interconnected.

For eastern europe I'm really at a loss, and Africa seems to lack regional
connectivity. All I can found is local stuff.

So, if anyone can give me a hand here, that would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
  Elmar.

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For Africa, check out Equant and BT

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For Africa, check out Equant and BT

For eastern europe I'm really at a loss, and Africa seems to lack regional
connectivity. All I can found is local stuff.

It's a whole continent. Some countries have more isp's, richer international connectivity and roboust, internal networks, others do not. If you need connectivty in a big city in nigeria or egypt you have different options than you do in say chad.

Differing regulatory regiemes, levels of political stability and vastly different levels of investment cause you options to be very different depending on where you need to go.