Interesting talk on SABC3

[ProAsm]

Anyone see the talk on SABC3's News Focus this evening at 18:15
Andrew McLaughlin of Harvard Law School gave a talk on why Africa is so far behind in high speed Internet and the reasons why.
He even slammed Telkom by name as well as the Goverment and all African Goverments for their protection on their protected Telco's
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">He pointed out that most African countries have banned, Voice Over IP (VOIP), an Internet based technology that allows for much cheaper voice communications than the phone companies. It is ironic that the poorest continent is being prevented from using the cheapest technology.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Part of his talk has been echoed here
http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,65980,00.html

Andrew McLaughlin
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/mclaughlin.html

 

[ASF]

The state of telco deregulation in this country is a bloody joke! Just about every international speaker on the subject has a similar opinion to the above...

 

[martin]

Yip, was a very interesting interview. He explained every answer really well and didn't leave anything vague. I requested a transcript of the interview from the SABC. Will post it here if I'm lucky enough to get it.

 

[ASF]

That would be great. I would really like to read it....