When either governments or service providers refuse to use the various channels available, users get affected.
For example: South Africa is a country with well over fifty million citizens. We are at the bottom tip of Africa and are serviced by a handful of submarine cables. Sadly, all service providers except Neotel, do not make use of the entire bouquet but only one. When that canle was damaged, the entire country's internet communications became so slow that it became useless. No access to cloud servers, as connections timed out. Neotel customers of course did not even know there was a problem as traffic was just automatically rerouted. 😄. Sadly, Neotel has a small consumer footprint as it isn't available everywhere. What works on paper does mot always work on practice. Yes, the iCloud is a dream when it is accessible and also my first choice. It just works' Now to get a dependable internet connection...,,,, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
