Further to this thread - readers may be interested in one initiative
dispelling some of the myths about the Internet being a 'content only'
medium rather than a true interactive forum, as well as offering insight
into some of the possibilities offered through combining appropriate
technologies
I'm not sure I recognize any disagreement! I am well aware that various
initiatives in a diverse group of countries are unable to develop
local-loop networks. A local-loop is for individual connections, where
actual access is made. A satellite serves a reasonable backbone for
allowing local-loops
Philipp,
Your heart's in the right place, but your knowledge is lacking. The
Internet isn't content, but exactly the same as the PSTN. The WWW is
about content. The Internet is about having the ability to run IP-based
applications... few of which are, or should be in the near future, about
Hi Philipp,
One observation on your comment as follows: Furthermore, cheaper than
monopoly-offered bandwidth (via satellite) exists in many developing
countries. HOWEVER, access is denied by legislation designed to protect
the existing monopoly (snip).
Even though an increasing number of
Dear GKD List,
My posting in response to the article The Great African Internet
Robbery that appeared on the BBC web-site has attracted a good deal of
opposing views and arguments (on and off the list). I would like to
thank all that took the time to write as it helped me to verify some of
my
Phillip's argument was certainly valid 15-20 years ago, when I and my
generation of IS researchers were dependent upon the largesse of the US
DoD for international e-mail.
Since then, however, the explosion of commercial internet use has been
driven largely by the product of Tim Berners-Lee's
Philipp Schmidt wrote:
The ARPANET, the first stage of what has grown into today's Internet,
was implemented by the U.S. military. It was then extended to be used
by U.S. universities mainly for research purposes. It seems that
anybody wanting to connect to the network that was up to this
You should be more precise:
The world except US is being ripped off by the US Telcos.
Reason: the situation you describe is true for all Internet-connections
from outside the US.
According to ITU we're talking about 500 Million (!) US$ anually at
least that US Telcos would lose (or would have
