Developing Nations Crippled By Broadband Costs

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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 23, 2009 @01:46PM from the holy-crip-it's-a-crapple dept.

eldavojohn writes "If you live in the EU, you probably enjoy low broadband costs. If you live in Finland, it's even a legal right. If you live in the US, you probably pay a moderate cost. But if you live in the developing world, a UNCTAD report paints your picture pretty grim. Ridiculously high bandwidth costs are inhibiting developing nations from enjoying productive use of the internet — like online banking and market tools."

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The solution... (Score:4, Funny)

by The Grim Reefer2 ( 1195989 ) writes: on Friday October 23, 2009 @01:52PM (#29848551)

Pigeon net. [bbc.co.uk] Apparently a carrier pigeon is faster as well.

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Re:The solution... (Score:3, Funny)

by Darkness404 ( 1287218 ) writes: on Friday October 23, 2009 @01:55PM (#29848615)

I wouldn't really call it faster for anything mentioned in TFS because of the fact that while you can get a lot of data really fast via pigeon there is terrible latency.

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Re:Development crippled by what? (Score:5, Funny)

by cayenne8 ( 626475 ) writes: on Friday October 23, 2009 @02:00PM (#29848725) Homepage Journal

Yeah..don't forget food and shelter too.
"Hey, Unbooboo....I'm starving, naked and wet....but, man, I'm getting like 10 Mbit download speeds!!"

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Re: online banking (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday October 23, 2009 @02:05PM (#29848839)

How else is my friend the King Abu Molabi Tiberius of Nigeria meant to provide me with my share of his inheritance? Perhaps the state of internet access over there is why I still haven't heard back from him?

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