According to the Manila Bulletin, we now have the option for Starlink.
...this Sydney Australia news article (May 4 2023) explains:
The future of the internet depends on who controls the South China Sea
More than 486 undersea cables carry more than 99 per cent of all international internet traffic globally, according to the Washington-based research firm TeleGeography. The bulk of them are controlled by a handful of American technology giants, namely Google-owner Alphabet, Facebook-owner Meta, Amazon and Microsoft.
South-East Asia’s internet economy is expected to reach $1 trillion in value by 2030. Whoever controls the Asia-Pacific’s subsea cabling infrastructure will not only dominate this booming economy, but control the global internet. ... As such, the world’s subsea cabling infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable not only to sabotage but also to espionage – spy agencies can easily tap into cables on their own territory.
That’s why geopolitical rivalry between the US and China has increasingly focused on controlling the world’s subsea cabling networks.
and this is the backstory of why China is trying to figure out how to destroy the starlink satellites.
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