Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/6/1 Yann Forget <y...@forget-me.net>: >> Last I asked, broadband Internet access in India was about INR 1500 (32 >> US$), which is at least a week day salary for an Indian worker. >> True, in theory, there are Internet cafes, but last I tried (in 2007) >> they can be really used for looking at Wikipedia (too slow). > > 1500 rupees for how long? And do you mean week's salary or day's > salary? It can't be both! What is the point of these internet cafes if > the connection is too slow to browse a predominantly text website?
Sorry, INR 1500 for a month. Well, you can still send a few mail (think it is like a 56 K connection). But most people have TV, so broadcasting some content could reach a lot of people. Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
