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