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VoIP Booming in Africa
securitas writes "The NY Times reports on the rapid growth of voice-over-IP telephony (VoIP) in sub-Saharan Africa and the battles it is waging with the government monopolies/ILECs. VoIP upstarts are taking market share from the government telcos, making it vastly more affordable to make a phone call since they don't charge the usual exorbitant tariffs and excessive user fees. Governments have responded by shutting down these operations, seizing equipment and cutting off service to lines they suspect of using Internet telephony. Part of the boom is related to the wait times for getting a phone line (Ghana Telecom has a backlog of 300,000 line requests), poor quality of service (50% of time you get a busy signal instead of a dial-tone) plus the willingness to trade voice quality for basic service. Foreign companies are now setting up VoIP call centers and multinationals like gold giant Newmont Mining plan to use VoIP for communications in and out of Africa. Some observers call Accra the next Bangalore, predicting a boom for the region that may make sub-Saharan Africa a major technology hub. This fits nicely with Kofi Annan's drive to use the Internet and wireless networks to change the lives of the poor."
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Good idea asshole, I'm sure what those famished and dehydrated people need is a convenient way to check their fucking stocks and sports scores.
Then maybe I'm wrong. How else would they check the status of their 20 Pounds of Sand auction on Ebay without it? This could change the world!
I hope you are not serious... It would be a shame for anyone that has taken the time to learn as much about computers and technology as the kids in the slashdot crowd to condescend to the level of trailer park intellect. Maybe you should get out of your house once in a while, talk to a black that isn't holding a forty or 'smoking crack' and maybe your viewpoints will change a little. ...better yet, just keep believing what your dad/uncle/brother taught you and live life lonely bitter and ignorant. you are probably not joking and are probably too intelligent to change your viewpoints
OK I ADMIT IT!
I'm the guy who's been going over there with AK-47s shooting them if they don't start ass fucking! It's me! I caused them to spread aids! It was me!
I moved to NZ from the US partly because of morons with moronic attitudes like you. South Africans (the white kind with British ancestry) are immigrating here in droves because things are so fucked up after years of British apartheid. Maybe you should go to college and then join the Peace Corps for a couple of years and go over there and help educate them on birth control. Oh... one more thang. This response isn't really meant for you because you're obviously too stupid to get it, but for anyone else here with some reasoning power who might actually be wondering if you actually have a good point.
...this will be the start of the demise of telephone networks - at least over in Africa, anyway. VoIP is getting more and more refined, along with more and more applications, such as the GPL'd Asterisk [asterisk.org] software PABX system. Most of the larger PABX systems I've seen around give the capability for VoIP links to other offices and if suitable gateways become more widely available, the move to VoIP will slowly but surely become more widespread as the larger companies that deal with the countries that have widespread VoIP penetration start to use those links to reduce the cost of making phone calls.
A: NIGGERS don't like any kind of job.
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Regards, Cowboy Neal, Fat Fuck in Charge.
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If you've got an entire continent full of people who need to be taught not to shoot eachother, these people do not deserve to be part of the human race.
..for medical health professional wannabes here in the states..or peace corp faggots wanting a communicable and fatal disease.
1. Where are they going to steal the computers from to do this with?
2. Where are they going to steal generators to run the stolen computers with?
3. Where are they going to steal the gasoline to run the stolen generators with to run the stolen computers?
4. Where are they going to steal buckets to haul away the stolen gasoline to run the stolen generators with to run the stolen computers?
5. Where are they going to find medics to help the 1,723 crispy coons that catch on fire while smoking cigarettes while dipping up spilled gasoline that spews from the holes that they shoot in the trans-Africoon pipeline with AK-47's so that they can use buckets to haul away the stolen gasoline to run the stolen generators with to run the stolen computers?
6. Where are they going to find a White man to help them hook the stolen computers up?
7. Who are they planning on calling with this new fangled VoIP thingy? Are they going to be the new telemarketers that are immune from the new do not call laws and the fines that are to be imposed on violaters?
8. Who will push the big red button to vaporize these savage monkeys with an endless rain of W88 nuke warheads?
9. Why should we send taxpayer dollars to Africoon to prolong the agony of these savage animals, dying of AIDS? Should we not just leave them to die off and be rid of them once and for all??
10. When will the new Reich implement the Final Solution for the bongoids that have invaded the USA???