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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font size="+1">McTim, you told about a
"happy" experience because in Kenya<font size="+1"> (</font>one
of the rare African countries who voted as US and allies), you
saw Isoc spreading with success its concepts and organisation.<br>
And Kenya is in the Top 4 of Internet penetration in Africa with
a 12% figure.<br>
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After 20 years of efforts, I cannot name that a "success". <br>
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ITU is a better place for a lot of subjects in
telecommunications.<br>
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C<font size="+1">ould</font> you built Internet without
telecommunications?<br>
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W<font size="+1">ould</font> IETF or ICANN deal with mobile
roaming concerns? and so on.<br>
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@+, Dom</font><br>
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Le 17/12/12 15:53, McTim a écrit :<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Dominique Lacroix <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dl@panamo.eu"><dl@panamo.eu></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">McTim, yes, all these are very good intentions.
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<pre wrap="">good results I would say
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<pre wrap="">But what about high level prices of connectivity?
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As I said yesterday, prices in many parts of Africa are coming down.
25 Megabytes of data from Safaricom in kenya is now 20 bob (20.00
KES = 0.232883 USD) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://safaricom.com/web/">http://safaricom.com/web/</a>
compare that to Verizon (USA) pricing for a similar product, which is
1:99 USD per megabyte!
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/Megabyte.jsp">http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/Megabyte.jsp</a>
This isn't the whole story however, but as I said yesterday, my DSL
service in USA is comparable in price to my Kenyan Wireless ISP
service from earlier this year.
And the high level price
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<pre wrap="">of new TLDs?
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What is the problem here? That the cost of application was too high
for Africans? One African new gTLD applicant told me last year that
"The money is not an issue, we can go to any (African) bank for that".
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How the Western countries could hope that Southern countries would follow
them in Dubaï?
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Member States regulators and Ministers of ICT are perfectly capable of
following (and participating) in WCIT.
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<pre wrap="">The meeting offers the great output to show the actual state of hearts.
Now I think we should adress the very state of divide. And in the frame of
environment foresight...
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Are you arguing that the ITU is the forum in which to address existing
digital divides?
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