<div>Hi all,</div>
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<div>Its not just the cost of access that is prohibitive but poor quality of service with no proper mechanism to deal with erring service provider.</div>
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<div>An example is the mobile telephony industry in Nigeria where quality of service has failed to <strong>significantly improve </strong>and subscribers have no effective outlet to address this. </div>
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<div>Best Regards,<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Abi <<a href="mailto:abi.jagun@gmail.com">abi.jagun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi<br><br>With regards to the cost of access in Africa, APC recently published<br>findings of a study on connectivity and access in 4 countries in<br>
sub-Saharan Africa (which also have access to the SAT3 cable).<br><br>The study shows how international bandwidth capacity has increased in<br>all the countries studied and what impact this is having on the cost<br>of international bandwidth (both on SAT3 and satellite), internet<br>
access to consumers, and also cost of international calls.<br><br>A briefing paper and the case country reports are available for<br>download at <a href="http://www.apc.org/en/node/6142/" target="_blank">http://www.apc.org/en/node/6142/</a><br>
<br><br>Abi<br><br><br>> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:06:33 +0200<br>> From: "Nyangkwe Agien Aaron" <<a href="mailto:nyangkweagien@gmail.com">nyangkweagien@gmail.com</a>><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Subject: Re: RE: [governance] Cost of access - the meters ticking<br>><br></div>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Hi,<br>><br>> With us here at ASAFE in Cameroon, we are paying 90 000 FCFA (135 Euros) per<br>> month for 250 kilo octets of connection. You can rest assured that<br>> connection is piece meal here. Irrespective of that, the ISP doesn't skip<br>
> the day of presenting their bill and strict instructions to respect maturity<br>> clause or seing your line disconnected.<br>><br>> Aaron<br>><br>><br></div>
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