The problem here is short term thinking by some African investors in the SAT 3 cable. These companies made high investments in the infrastructure but do not yet have a full national network to distribute this high bandwidth. However they need to make the money to honor the bank payment's and thus look at the few clients they have today to make that money.
A holistic view to the problem however could help these companies distribute this bandwidth, in Nigeria a new company has set up a Satllite hub and is selling internet service to west Africa via satellite creating good competition to sevices like Afsat's iway. So yes if we do not have a good plan for the bandwidth, we should worry about the eassy project. The setup costs will always be there and someone somewhere has to pay for this. As I keep saying the "Digital Divide" for us Africans is still our heads. There a number of solutions available to ensure that we grow our markets to volumes that will eventually bring the cost of bandwith down to bearable numbers. Was about to say acceptable but knowing us africans the only acceptable number will always be $0.00 per kb. ( yet another factor of the "digital divide" in our heads) Regards _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
