Great, Some local pings rates too!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Longwe</b> <<a href="mailto:brian@pure-id.com">brian@pure-id.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>You may not believe this but I am sitting in Addis right now and<br>seeing latency of 120ms on a ping to BBC in the UK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br><br>Apparently the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) did a
<br>deal with Sudan to get access by extending the national fibre optic<br>between two towns close to the border. Interestingly enough this came<br>about after another project to link Ethiopia via Eritrea stalled due<br>to cross-border negotiations.
<br><br>At an estimated project cost of approx US$690,000 the country now has<br>fairly good internet connectivity. The project was initiated in<br>February this year and completed by August with 34 Mbps from Verizon.<br>
An invitation for bids to provide 155Mbps (STM-1) was also launched<br>at the same time.<br><br>This is a v. good example of how terrestrial networks can provide a<br>quick alternative means of providing international connectivity.
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