Gasping for bandwidth

[Debbie]

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=280814&area=/insight/insight__economy__business/

South African broadband consumer activist website MyADSL pays more than R10 000 a month to host its website locally when it could host it overseas for a mere R700.
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Muller says there are limited users for bandwidth-hungry content owing to the price, and the result is that South African websites use a lot less audio and video content as well as podcasting on their websites.

“This is because of the cost to the user and the cost to the guys hosting the content,” said Muller.

“Our developers do not have the freedom to develop new services and new skills, and the result is our IT industry becomes internationally uncompetitive,” said Muller.

On the front page of M&G today. Great rpm! And thank you M&G for paying attention to the expensive bandwidth issue, it is more critical to our economy than the majority of people realise.