Morocco... Sure? Data points?
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Le 2018-05-29 20:00, Owen DeLong a écrit :
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.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
The Ethiopian Internet is also subject to significant censorship and
attempted blockage of VPN and VoIP services.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ethiopia+internet+censorship&oq=ethiopia+internet+censorship&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57.2857j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
<https://www.google.com/search?q=ethiopia+internet+censorship&oq=ethiopia+internet+censorship&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57.2857j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8>
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com
<mailto:o...@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.
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.
M-Pesa is widely accepted in Kenya, but not at all in the US or
Canada.
PayPal is popular in the US, but not so much in most of the rest of
the world.
YMMV.
IPv6 is readily available on almost every mobile phone in the US. Less
so in
Kenya or Tanzania, Eritrea, Canada, or Indonesia.
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.
Owen
