Mauritius Aims To Be First Wireless Nation

hattan writes "This tropical island off the east coast of Africa is best-known for its white-sand beaches, its designer clothing outlets and its spicy curries. But tiny Mauritius is about to stake a new claim to fame. By year's end, or soon afterward, it is expected to become the world's first nation with coast-to-coast wireless Internet." From the article: "An undersea broadband fiber-optic cable, completed three years ago, gives the island fast and reliable phone and Internet links with the rest of Africa and with Europe, India and Malaysia. Many of the country's 1.2 million people--a mix of French, Indian, Chinese and African descendants--are bilingual or trilingual, speaking French, English and either Chinese or Hindi. The country is democratic, peaceful and stable."

Comments

That's just lovely.

[Anonymous Coward]

So the inhabitants of Mauritas can sit back, sip their lattes and enjoy their wireless internet while just over a small stretch of water illions lie dying from AIDS, malaria, starvation or violence by insane warlords. I hope being able to surf slashdot from the beach can cover up the guilt.

One AP is enough...

[HermanAB]

Well, yeah - you only need one Access Point to cover the whole island...

Re:Ambitious Maritius

[Vitamin P]

Rather, it languishes in tribal warfare made all the worse by the relatively recent influx of Islam which has torn the northern countries of Chad and Sudan to shreds. Then being 100% serious they are doomed! Islam will not allow what most of the modern world considers essential to having a prosperous economy. If you can't allow 50-60% (your women) of your population to produce what you need then you are forced to take it from somewhere else therefore making us infidels a lucrative target we have the cash and the balls to let most anyone work to produce what we want to spend our money on. Islamists (yes this is flamebait) only care about themselves and history has shown that they are at an economic disadvantage when they restrict their population from enhancing their economic status. If they would wake up and smell the camel dung they might see that restricting about half of your population might seem like a good idea it is not without risks.

Re:Ambitious Maritius

[ImaLamer]

it has been a long time since it was a source of mankind-advancing knowledge (at least since the Library of Alexander in Egypt was destroyed).

Hey!

Many things were invented or discovered in "dark Africa" before a bunch of honkeys ever did anything. But because Europeans didn't know - I guess that makes it backwards...

Get to know your African history (before the last 200-300 years) and you'd be suprised.

Re:It's a very historic place.

[Anonymous Coward]

eat my fucking balls you nigger.

if you love the pope so much, why don't you marry him?

Re:It's a very historic place.

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod Parent: Religous Fuckwit

distracted by forcing hush money on boys

[Sjobeck]

The Vatican could have easily had wall-to-wall WiFi first, as you correctly question, but they were far too busy giving hush money to little boys who lives they had ruined while at the same time methodically moving pedophile priests to other countries just ahead of the police.