Re: Tanzanian ISPs move closer to establishing an Internet exchange

[John Tully <tully at mikrotik.com>]

It seems a difficult number to estimate, but you can be sure that the 
dollar cost of not having a local IX in Africa is much much more expensive 
than the same issue for a US or European ISP.

If you take into account the prices that the local telephone companies 
charge for leased lines to Europe and the European Internet prices, then 
the cost for bandwidth in Africa is many multiples of what US ISPs pay for 
bandwidth.  Plus, consider if you don't have a local IX, then the waist of 
bandwidth is going two ways -- all the way to Europe or the US and then 
back to the local server...

John



>On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:53:32PM +0000, ALAIN PATRICK AINA wrote:
> >
> >
> > > could you give us the basis for the $400m figure?
> >
> > Do you also want to know the basis when WHO said " MALARIA KILLS ONE 
> PERSON
> > EVERY 20 SECOND IN AFRICA"? ;-)
>
>That statistic can easily be checked: it equates to about 1.5m people dying
>per year, which sounds plausible to me, and I trust the WHO to count the
>death certificates.
>
>But the $400m figure seems ludicrous. Surely all the ISPs in Africa together
>don't even spend that much on transit and link costs? And then only a small
>fraction of that can be saved by peering.
>
>Regards,
>
>Brian.
>
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