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African ISPs Being Fleeced by the West
dipfan writes "African ISPs are forced to pay the full cost of their connections to western telcos and ISPs, rather than sharing the costs, as in the case of voice telephony: quote - "America Online doesn't spend one single cent in sending emails to Africa." The total cost of any email sent or received by an African internet user is borne entirely by the African ISPs, totaling $500m a year for the continent, according to this disturbing article by the BBC."
Isn't life just so totally unfair?? I mean.. treating ISPs in Africa and other countries the way that every other ISP is treated.... How dare they. Obviously you bend over and help pay for the internet usage in that country.
Talk about stupid.. the only time a ISP gets any sort of discount on traffic is if they are HUGE and can get some sort of peering arrangment with another HUGE ISP.. and even then each ISP is responsible for transport to and from the peering point.
Please stop your whining.
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Another great product of the US education system.
The internet number one is not some global right.
Its for those that can pay.
It was developed and fostered in the US for the US.
Its no damm different than anywhere else, If I send an email to the chineese, guess what, who picks up the traffic cost on the other end ? The CHINEESE !
If a chinaman send ME an email whose ISP covers the cost of reciveing it ? MINE !
What armed with this knowledge lets shut down the African ISP's all together send 10 emails a day to some addresses , then maybe Ill stop getting mail from my "friend" in Nigera to speculate on oil wells over there (SPAM).
What communist mentality drives these things to be rights of anyone and everyone regardless of economy ? If you can pay you cant play, leveling the playing field dosent work it just makes for a very dull game.
Sig went tro...aahemmm.....fishing........
We've always raped the African nation for as long as whites have known about it.
Fuck us all!!
I always thougt the Internet was supposed to be, yeah, an INTERNATIONAL NETWORK!! Then why isn't it?
Well... one reason...money... money talks all over the western coutries and by far, it sucks.
just my $500 000 000
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You are so right. This should stop.
Oh, but then Africa wouldn't have *any* ISP service. Well, that's OK because at least they won't be exploited!
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YES, you moron, I PAY FOR AN E-MAIL WHICH HAS BEEN SENT TO ME! You think this shit is free? I pay for the DSL line my computer uses to connect to the ISP I pay for where the server with my e-mail is housed that I pay to access.
You're whiney attitude is what offends. "Technologically Priveleged"? Remember that privelege is not always arbitrarily granted, and at least in my case I EARNED that privelege.
In this case, these people are PAYING for the ability to access information. Unlike a telephone call, which goes both ways, an Internet session involves FAR less data being sent out than what is coming in. So it makes perfect sense to NOT charge at a 1:1 ratio.
You whinging petit bourgeois bastards are fscking patethic.
./ upper middle class guilt ridden PC college socialists baying about how unfair it is for the 'poor' africans not having net access for free.
70 years of russian socialism didnt produce a single new drug for medical use.
What makes you think that the very medium that allows you to post your ansgt ridden bollocks would exist at all only for companies that pay the taxes to finance your feather bedded existance.
Yet we have the classic
Get a grip losers, and get a fscking job.
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Our guys invented it. Overseas folks that want in can do it on their own dime. I'm still pissed about the last time we tried to clean something up in Africa. Now you want my cable bill to subsidize more Nigerian spam? I'd rather mail a check directly to the RIAA. At least nobody thinks I'm evil for not wanting to bankroll them.
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