28 May
2018
28 May
'18
10:24 p.m.
In article <CAEmG1=oiVJ4qj_D9hA3WS=g64zoo4pYkZ-zDZ0nEEQcTjE5A=A@mail.gmail.com>, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:
Your 200mbit/sec link that costs you $300 in hardware is going to cost you $4960/month to actually get IP traffic across, in Nairobi. Yes, that's about $60,000/year.
Nonetheless, Safaricom sells entirely usable data plans. A one day 1GB bundle on a prepaid SIM costs about $1, a monthly 1GB costs about $5. They have 4G, it works, I've used it. What do they know that Telegeography (who made that slide) doesn't? -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly