Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

["John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

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?

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