On Tuesday 05 May 2009 02:07:37 pm Jan Oscar Holbo Rasmussen wrote: > Why would the Telcos (UTL and MTN) not provide internet > through *dsl connections? Is it because of copper > quality, cost, etc?
As you've probably come to learn, things on this side of the sea are not so black & white :-). There's a lot of reasons why ADSL, or some form of cheap, wired services is not available to homes or offices. I haven't been back home in a while to give any authoritative input on this, and perhaps folk on this list who are on the ground might be in a better position to speak. I'm not sure whether viable copper is still an issue to find, especially in the residential areas. I'm not sure whether UTL have enough fibre in the ground to link up the DSLAM's to their closest IP PoP. I'm not sure whether it still costs hell to deploy DSLAM's all over the place to gain that critical mass. Of course, the cost of Internet access has been insane due to satellite, but hopefully, by year's end, we'll be seeing a couple of changes. Like I said, not much to go on from where I'm standing :-). Mark.
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