Hi Reinier Or make your ISP charge a lower fee for local traffic, after all, its free > for > them, too. > > local traffic has never been free for an IXP peer. It does reduce the cost of upstream data by keeping local data local, but it in no way makes local peering free for them. I would say that since you host sites locally it should be free for all your customers because you do not host their sites out of UG.
(and Mike, dont give me that crap this time that you cant do it, because > what > is good for facebook, is even better for local traffic. In saying one can't do it, it is not that it cannot be done but rather it is not feasible to get into it. That is my personal opinion :-) > And no, the infrastructure is not free, but mandatory to maintain anyways so, if local connectivity is offered for free, what resources shall be used to maintain this infrastructure. There is a reason why some ISP's in Uganda are peering through other already peering ISPs. , ah, and when google came along, all of a sudden local traffic was > interesting enough to > connect to the cache at UTL. Why not play as nice for local businesses? > Might > actually create a community of entrepeneurial tech companies.) > > Google cache in Uganda is local to Uganda and the reason a wise ISP will connect to it is to lower its upstream bandwidth and take advantage of faster local access, but the host of the cache pays a price for this, his upstream bandwidth is needed to collect the cached content, a cost they are willing to pay. Free local connectivity will not spur local tech businesses, local content and demand for local content will spur local tech businesses and a community of entrepreneurial tech companies. Take a visit to Nairobi, Kenya the growth of their local tech businesses is not because of free local traffic but because there is a demand of local content and the suppliers are coming up to feed this demand. It of course started by a few content providers that fed a desire of user demand. Are we in Uganda feeding a desire of any Ugandan by working to provide local content for them? We even host our daily papers out of Uganda! not to mention our GOVT sites!!!!! (ubos.org--North America, unbs.go.ug--USA just to mention a few) -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------
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