On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:49:51PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/business/global/10cable.html
if seacom completes, and it is looking likely (yay!), this will be great. but
Alan Mauldin, research director at TeleGeography, a telecommunications market research company, said Africa was the last major area where broadband access was not widespread.
try much of the pacific islands, central asia (the stans), myanmar, much of india, laos, cambodia, and large swaths of northern china and the middle of russia. and i am sticking to places with non-sparse population.
americans are a bit naive about the rest of the world.
randy
clearly Alan's whole point rests on the interpretation of the two words -major- and -area-... and no, we will not stoop to using the US definition of broadband. --bill