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Homing Pigeon vs. South African Internet
October 1, 2009 ♦ Comments Off on Homing Pigeon vs. South African Internet

Recently, a South African call-center business, frustrated with its slow Internet connection, decided to transfer data between two of its offices – via messenger pigeon. The pigeon traveled 50 miles with 4gb of data in just over 2 hours; only 100mb was sent over the hard line in that time. …

Unleashing Africa’s Potential
September 29, 2009 ♦ Comments Off on Unleashing Africa’s Potential

Produced by The World Bank: “East and Southern Africa is the only region in the world not connected to the global broadband infrastructure. This ‘missing link’ explains why the region accounts for less than one percent of the world’s bandwidth capacity.”

Connected in the desert
August 28, 2009 ♦ Comments Off on Connected in the desert
Connected in the desert

Dating from August 2009, this was the first post ever on the site. We wrote, “with some effort the entire continent will have viable Internet options.” What an understatement…