[Kictanet] 'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL'

[James Njuguna]

I think the article is referring to Telkom South Africa..., which in a
warped kind of way is good if our Telkom can do better than they are...

Njuguna.

-----Original Message-----
From: kictanet-bounces at kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces at kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Dorcas Muthoni
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:53 AM
To: Kenya ICT Policy - kictanet
Subject: [Kictanet] 'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL'

'Cheaper to fly than use ADSL'

If you don't eat or stay over, you could fly to Hong Kong and download 
100 gigabytes of data from the Internet, fly back to South Africa and 
pay less than if you were to download that amount of information using 
Telkom's ADSL service.

Even taking into account the duration of the return flight, you could be 
back in South Africa days before you could complete the download here.

This is according to Durban software developer Stuart Gunter, who has 
posted on an Internet forum the findings of an investigation that show 
just how internationally uncompetitive Telkom's ADSL service is compared 
to the rest of the world.

For the rest of the story visit:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&click_id=79&art_id=vn2005111406272
2287C918494&set_id=1 






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