Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

Ethiopia is significantly different and unique, in its own unusual way,
because of the government monopoly telecom. Other people can correct me if
I'm wrong, but unless the situation has changed in the past two years, all
small to medium sized ISPs in Ethiopia are mandated by law to be downstream
of the government run telecom ASN. Also the government owned national
telecom has a monopoly on all international fiber connections to
neighboring countries (at OSI layer 1), and for things like STM/SDH or
1/10/ Gbps Ethernet L2 transport services to any location outside of
Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian Internet is also subject to significant censorship and
attempted blockage of VPN and VoIP services.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ethiopia+internet+censorship&oq=ethiopia+internet+censorship&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57.2857j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8





On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:

> > The Internet in Indonesia is the very same Internet in Eritrea, as it is
> > in Canada. We can't quite split that…
>
> I admit that I haven’t been to Eritrea or Indonesia, but using Ethiopia
> and Malaysia as stand-ins (which I have been to), I can say that while they
> are the same internet, the level of development, the payment systems which
> are usable via said internet, and other aspects of the daily use and
> capabilities
> which can be utilized on the internet in those countries does vary greatly.
>
> For example, Apple Pay is somewhat ubiquitous in Canada. It’s virtually
> unheard
> of in Ethiopia. My travels to Malaysia were not recent enough for me to
> comment
> accurately on the current state of things.
>
> M-Pesa is widely accepted in Kenya, but not at all in the US or Canada.
>
> PayPal is popular in the US, but not so much in most of the rest of the
> world.
>
> YMMV.
>
> IPv6 is readily available on almost every mobile phone in the US. Less so
> in
> Kenya or Tanzania, Eritrea, Canada, or Indonesia.
>
> While all connected networks are part of the same big I Internet, not all
> networks
> are created or maintained equal and not all services on those networks are
> ubiquitously available to all users of the big I Internet.
>
> Owen