Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

It was a convenient example with which I had experience near Eritrea.

My statement would apply equally for say, Zambia or Morocco.

Owen


> On May 29, 2018, at 10:58 , Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> The Ethiopian Internet is also subject to significant censorship and attempted blockage of VPN and VoIP services.
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> https://www.google.com/search?q=ethiopia+internet+censorship&oq=ethiopia+internet+censorship&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57.2857j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com <mailto: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.
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> 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.
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> M-Pesa is widely accepted in Kenya, but not at all in the US or Canada.
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> PayPal is popular in the US, but not so much in most of the rest of the world.
>
> YMMV.
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> IPv6 is readily available on almost every mobile phone in the US. Less so in
> Kenya or Tanzania, Eritrea, Canada, or Indonesia.
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> 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.
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> Owen