[governance] Cost of access - the meters ticking

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Hi

 

I kind of know what bandwidth (and consumer grade access like dialup / adsl)
costs in Africa.

 

I simply wanted some African colleagues to cite examples, for Mr.Katz's
information.. he is kind of upset that Comcast is thinking of providing
metered bandwidth (250 gigabytes transfer a month) after offering an
unlimited data plan.

 

 

From: Gao Mosweu [mailto:puna_gb at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:41 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; 'Yehuda Katz'
Subject: RE: RE: [governance] Cost of access - the meters ticking

 


Hello!

In Botswana (Africa), we pay about 600 Pula (about $100) per month for ADSL
at a speed of 512 kbps... and there are a few pre-requisites like that you
need to have a voice line before you can connect a data line.  And the $100
includes a subscription fee for the voice line as well.

That said, only a few people can afford it. And Dial up connection is
excruciatingly slow, and probably more costly since you end up spending more
time trying to connect.  This essentially means if you really want to be
connected you have to go for ADSL.

 

Does that help Suresh?



--- On Tue, 6/3/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:

From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>
Subject: RE: RE: [governance] Cost of access - the meters ticking
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "'Yehuda Katz'" <yehudakatz at mailinator.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 2:57 AM

India, and I pay something like $30 a month for a 8 GB per month 2 Mbit ADSL
 
You want to ask our colleagues from Africa what they pay, and for what kind
of
connectivity?
 
      srs
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yehuda Katz [mailto:yehudakatz at mailinator.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:18 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: RE: [governance] Cost of access - the meters ticking
> 
> Realy? I had no idea that it is the norm in the world already.
> 
> I just pay a flat rate, like most of the USA
> 
> Where are you at? and how much do you pay?
> for domestic service.
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