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."

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This is the free market at work.

[CyricZ]

This is the free market at work. This is what happens when companies are forced to compete, and to innovate. This would have happened years ago in America had the government not passed legislation limiting the creation of local wireless networks by townships and counties, all due to lobbying from the large telecom corporations.

Re:Most African nations are quite developed.

[HermanAB]

Ugh - bad troll dude.

I am an African-American-White. Most of Africa is bad news and the better parts are swamped by millions of people streaming in from the worse parts.

The trouble with Africa is that the people breed like rabbits and even Aids can't fix the problem, since the incubation period is too long.

The only thing that can save Africa is a continent-wide outbreak of Ebola...

Re:That's just lovely.

[pomo monster]

Oh, sorry... I just read the guy you were replying to. Nice to see him lumping India in with North Korea. But hey, it's Slashdot, what do you expect?

Re:The Land of the Dodo

[drunkahol]

This kind of comment gives idiots a bad name!

The Portugese first landed on the island, and it is their sailors who are widely credited with hunting the hapless Dodo to extinction.

The Dutch, French and British then fought numerous times to gain control of the island. The last victors were the British (hence English and the language of government, driving on the left etc), but not before the French had got the whole island speaking French.

Try to engage your brain before blurting out crap like this!