Good article on bandwidth prices in Africa in spite of undersea cable,
I hope East Africa doesn’t suffer the
same fate.
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Anecdotal evidence from West Africa
thus far indicates that SAT-3 has had a negligible impact on improving
broadband access or lowering prices as most customers continue to rely on
satellite for international connectivity. For example in Ghana, a monthly half
circuit 2Mg (E1) bandwidth cost between four thousand (4,000) and six thousand
(6,000) US dollars over satellite while the same bandwidth cost twelve thousand
dollars ($12,000) over the SAT3 undersea cable which lands in Accra. It appears
indeed that in the best case scenario, the cost of the Internet is 25 times as
expensive in Africa as it is in Europe; this is the case in the capital cities
but, to the exception of these cities, bandwidth remains 100 to 400 times more
expensive in rural and semi-urban sub-Saharan Africa than in Europe.
If you also consider the vast difference in incomes between most African
countries and Europe, the difference becomes
even greater. Measured as the number of hours you must work to pay for an
Internet connection, a user in Africa is
disadvantaged by a factor of 100 or more.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=69263
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