I am sure these third world nations have more important things to spend their money on rather than data plans and data devices. Things like food and medicine come to mind...
In none of the Starving Children in Africa commercials have I ever seen anyone with a smart phone... It appears Nairobi proper has decent cell coverage, but the outskirt villages and such don't appear all that well covered. I am guessing these are the poorer areas. To check out the 3 cellular providers coverage maps in Kenya, check out the maps located here: https://opensignal.com/networks -Mike On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 7:24 PM, John R. Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: > In article <CAEmG1=oiVJ4qj_D9hA3WS=g64zoo4pYkZ-zDZ0nEEQcTjE5A=A@mail. > gmail.com>, > Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote: > >> Your 200mbit/sec link that costs you $300 in hardware >> is going to cost you $4960/month to actually get IP traffic >> across, in Nairobi. Yes, that's about $60,000/year. >> > > Nonetheless, Safaricom sells entirely usable data plans. A one day > 1GB bundle on a prepaid SIM costs about $1, a monthly 1GB costs about > $5. They have 4G, it works, I've used it. > > What do they know that Telegeography (who made that slide) doesn't? > > -- > Regards, > John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for > Dummies", > Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly > > -- Mike Lyon mike.l...@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon
