[kictanet] [eThinkTankTz] Uganda has the cheapest Broadband Internet in E-Africa.

[McTim]

Walu,

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> @Dr. Zaipuna,
>
> I can tell you are a true scholar from your consistent and persistent approach :-).   Defining and agreeing on what is Broadband Internet is indeed the first step to harmonizing research in this domain.
>
> Again, ITU (apologies for quoting what appears to be a discredited ITU*) in the same publication observes that Broadband meant different things across the 200 economies /countries sampled. With the observation that only 30% of the world giving its definition of broadband as a minimum link of 2Mbit/s - the rest advertising it as below this figure.
>
> The situation gets murkier when ITU observes that the said broadband service can be offered over fixed-line(fiber/copper), fixed broadband(wireless), mobile broadband (GSM) amongst others.  To harmonize its ranking, ITU takes a re-calculated price of  1Mbits/s Fixed broadband (wireless) across the economies.
>
> It further notes that in Africa, Mobile broadband is more common and provides another ranking based on 500MB and 1GB data bundles per month - of which East Africa is still at the bottom quarter of the food chain in terms of affordability :-) . Obviously data bundles (Volume based and caped) vs 1Mb/s "unlimited data" per month can spawn an entirely new debate within the context of broadband quality...and perhaps outside the scope of the esteemed Listers here.


Agreed, I would also like to note that comparing MegaBits per second
with a quantity of MegaBytes is a chalk and cheese comparison.




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McTim
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