[53931] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Networking in Africa...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (fingers)
Tue Dec 3 10:37:29 2002
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 17:36:58 +0200 (SAST)
From: fingers <fingers@fingers.co.za>
To: alex@yuriev.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10212031033150.19070-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
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> but I am being told that Lagos is the center of Africa by such knowledgeble
> persons who claim that there are *gasp* thousands *gasp* of cyber-cafe's in
> Lagos. I mean since there no thousands cyber-cafe's in the entire US, I am
> sure presence of thousands of them in a rather small city means it is *the*
> center.
a cybercafe != the centre of a continent! wake up. there are many
cyber-cafe's in south africa too. sometimes as many as 12 in a single
street. but i'd not call south africa the centre of a continent just
because of it. each country is different. each country brings with it it's
own regulatory framework, incumbent telco of varying degrees, etc.
judging any continent on a single country is extremely closed-minded.
