Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

[Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () gmail com>]

I am sure these third world nations have more important things to spend
their money on rather than data plans and data devices. Things like food
and medicine come to mind...

In none of the Starving Children in Africa commercials have I ever seen
anyone with a smart phone...

It appears Nairobi proper has decent cell coverage, but the outskirt
villages and such don't appear all that well covered. I am guessing these
are the poorer areas.

To check out the 3 cellular providers coverage maps in Kenya, check out the
maps located here:

https://opensignal.com/networks

-Mike


On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 7:24 PM, John R. Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

> In article <CAEmG1=oiVJ4qj_D9hA3WS=g64zoo4pYkZ-zDZ0nEEQcTjE5A=A@mail.
> gmail.com>,
> Matthew Petach  <mpetach () netflight com> wrote:
>
> > Your 200mbit/sec link that costs you $300 in hardware
> > is going to cost you $4960/month to actually get IP traffic
> > across, in Nairobi.   Yes, that's about $60,000/year.
>
> Nonetheless, Safaricom sells entirely usable data plans.  A one day
> 1GB bundle on a prepaid SIM costs about $1, a monthly 1GB costs about
> $5.  They have 4G, it works, I've used it.
>
> What do they know that Telegeography (who made that slide) doesn't?
>
> --
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies",
> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly


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