The cable system includes a terrestrial link connecting the cities of Alexandria and Suez in Egypt.

It will connect 23 countries either directly for coastal countries or indirectly through terrestrial links for landlocked countries, like Mali and Niger.

A single satellite link can span a huge distance that would take a terrestrial link through many countries and commercial operators.

Macuro never had any terrestrial links, and all communications were by sea.

It is not a good model for most terrestrial links because of multipath, terrain blocking, interference, etc.

Angola, Zimbabia, Tanzania, Uganda have shown improvements as they converted from satellite to terrestrial links.

Since then, the route has become the terrestrial link to the exchanges in the Mackenzie Delta region.

After the completion of the bridges on the Highway 48 in 2007 - 2010 the terrestrial link to Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville has significantly improved.

And sometimes the way some of these work you have, like, downloading to you comes down by satellite, but then uploading goes back over a terrestrial link, typically modem.

Ham operators make use of the satellites during natural disasters when terrestrial links and cell phone systems may be down or overloaded.