Morocco Tops Broadband League With 325,000 Subscribers

"Morocco"?! Who ever heard of Morocco? Aren't we supposed to be the "economic powerhouse" of Africa?

Shame on Telkom, shame.
 
They have one advantage though they are spitting distance from some very big data pipes....
 
telkomsuig said:
They have one advantage though they are spitting distance from some very big data pipes....
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Fair enough, and they dont connect through SAT-3 either do they, who do they get their bandwidth from?

One has to ask how much difference does it make that we have to connect from a distance.
Other than the initial cable expense what other costs are there that pump up our prices to $11,000 per mbps per month?

Maintenance, electricity, BMW's, Papi's pillars of k@k?

There was a report recently that even implied that its not that much more expensive (long distance) and that it might even be cheaper. Sure I read it here somewhere.
 
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Once the cable is laid the distance issue is almost a moot point. Longer cables mean greater latency but the actual throughput of the cable (the number of Mbps) is not that greatly affected if the cable is well constructed and has sufficient repeaters.
 
Look I obviously don't agree with the prices at the moment but to lay a cable the distance which is needed from South Africa is quite expensive. The investors in the cable will require a good return on their investment hence the higher cost ongoing cost. Comparing Marocco with SA is not quite fair as Marocco can connect to spain very easily and cheaply at the straits of gibraltar they are probably no more than 10k's away from earope and then they can connect to europes huge pipes to the states http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/telegeography_2001_bandwidth_large.gif.

A good comparison would be australia versus south africa where they have similar distances to the states...
 
Our paucity of cables reflects well our third world status and the attitudes to that cable reinforce this.
 
Right in a way. The problem is just the comparitively few internet users in africa (or the people who can potentially afford internet access)
 
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