Why the large expence when you have an undersea cable? I would expect the operators to undercut the sat guys by huge margins.
So I guess we should not pray for a sea cable from the coast to Kla?
Kiggs
On 6 Dec 2004, at 17:35, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good article on bandwidth prices in Africa in spite of undersea cable, I hope East Africa doesn’t suffer the same fate.
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Anecdotal evidence from West Africa thus far indicates that SAT-3 has had a negligible impact on improving broadband access or lowering prices as most customers continue to rely on satellite for international connectivity. For example in Ghana, a monthly half circuit 2Mg (E1) bandwidth cost between four thousand (4,000) and six thousand (6,000) US dollars over satellite while the same bandwidth cost twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) over the SAT3 undersea cable which lands in Accra. It appears indeed that in the best case scenario, the cost of the Internet is 25 times as expensive in Africa as it is in Europe; this is the case in the capital cities but, to the exception of these cities, bandwidth remains 100 to 400 times more expensive in rural and semi-urban sub-Saharan Africa than in Europe. If you also consider the vast difference in incomes between most African countries and Europe, the difference becomes even greater. Measured as the number of hours you must work to pay for an Internet connection, a user in Africa is disadvantaged by a factor of 100 or more.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=69263
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