It was a convenient example with which I had experience near Eritrea. My statement would apply equally for say, Zambia or Morocco.
Owen > On May 29, 2018, at 10:58 , Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ethiopia is significantly different and unique, in its own unusual way, > because of the government monopoly telecom. Other people can correct me if > I'm wrong, but unless the situation has changed in the past two years, all > small to medium sized ISPs in Ethiopia are mandated by law to be downstream > of the government run telecom ASN. Also the government owned national telecom > has a monopoly on all international fiber connections to neighboring > countries (at OSI layer 1), and for things like STM/SDH or 1/10/ Gbps > Ethernet L2 transport services to any location outside of Ethiopia. > > The Ethiopian Internet is also subject to significant censorship and > attempted blockage of VPN and VoIP services. > > https://www.google.com/search?q=ethiopia+internet+censorship&oq=ethiopia+internet+censorship&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57.2857j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 > > <https://www.google.com/search?q=ethiopia+internet+censorship&oq=ethiopia+internet+censorship&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57.2857j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8> > > > > > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com > <mailto:o...@delong.com>> wrote: > > > > The Internet in Indonesia is the very same Internet in Eritrea, as it is > > in Canada. We can't quite split that… > > I admit that I haven’t been to Eritrea or Indonesia, but using Ethiopia > and Malaysia as stand-ins (which I have been to), I can say that while they > are the same internet, the level of development, the payment systems which > are usable via said internet, and other aspects of the daily use and > capabilities > which can be utilized on the internet in those countries does vary greatly. > > For example, Apple Pay is somewhat ubiquitous in Canada. It’s virtually > unheard > of in Ethiopia. My travels to Malaysia were not recent enough for me to > comment > accurately on the current state of things. > > M-Pesa is widely accepted in Kenya, but not at all in the US or Canada. > > PayPal is popular in the US, but not so much in most of the rest of the world. > > YMMV. > > IPv6 is readily available on almost every mobile phone in the US. Less so in > Kenya or Tanzania, Eritrea, Canada, or Indonesia. > > While all connected networks are part of the same big I Internet, not all > networks > are created or maintained equal and not all services on those networks are > ubiquitously available to all users of the big I Internet. > > Owen > >
