On Tuesday 16 June 2009 01:52:17 pm Mugarura Cavin wrote: > i am in no way a doomsday prophet, > however the eassy cable and other under sea optic fibre > cables will only solve less than 20% of our current > Internet problems.
The main problem now is access (you know, power reliability and all that good stuff notwithstanding). If the cellular networks get their act together, and move up to 3G (unless they have already) and make sure there's sufficient backhaul capacity between the "hills" and the PoP's, they've covered quite a number of users already. > Similar cable efforts in West and Southern Africa, have > not significantly changed their fortunes. The SAT-3 and SAFE cables were a disaster for south and western Africa (not respectively) because they were owned and run by incumbents with different agenda - basically, club cables - that turned into a piss project. But... > The advantages of the EASSY cable are obvious, however > having a big Lake, like L. Victoria (or is it Nalubaale) > does not automatically translate into piped water, to the > people of Uganda. Cables are cables - you can never have enough in the ground (or the sea). If the operating policies of the cable system are open and fair (which may be a point of view), it's a good start. What's critical is stabilizing supporting services that will drive up-take of this capacity, i.e.: * power * access to computers * access to mobile phones * inland infrastructure * mass access * data centres * the list goes on... Otherwise you end up massive amounts of capacity sitting in data centres, borders and coast lines. > Countries in deserts are actually > better off. As funny as that sounds, it's actually quite surprising to see :-), all things considered. Cheers, Mark.
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