Lessons for African broadband - from 19th century Britain's postal service
The author, Steve Song, argues that if fibre network operators were to introduce a uniform, affordable price at any point of presence, there might be an exponential growth in traffic on national fibre networks The challenge of unlocking affordable access to backhaul networks for small operators, especially in rural areas, is a problem that has been bothering me for years. As demand for high-speed access expands and last-mile access technologies grow increasingly affordable, the cost of connecting a network to the global Internet is rapidly becoming the single biggest challenge to the sustaina...
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