Re: sat-3 cut?

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:49:51PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/business/global/10cable.html
>
> if seacom completes, and it is looking likely (yay!), this will be great.
> but
>
>     Alan Mauldin, research director at TeleGeography, a telecommunications
>     market research company, said Africa was the last major area where
>     broadband access was not widespread.
>
> try much of the pacific islands, central asia (the stans), myanmar, much of
> india, laos, cambodia, and large swaths of northern china and the middle of
> russia.  and i am sticking to places with non-sparse population.
>
> americans are a bit naive about the rest of the world.
>
> randy

        clearly Alan's whole point rests on the interpretation of the
        two words -major- and -area-... and no, we will not stoop to 
        using the US definition of broadband.


--bill