Re: Tanzanian ISPs move closer to establishing an Internet exchange

[Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net>]

      On Tue, 13 May 2003, Brian Candler wrote:
    > Building an IX would be an attractive commercial proposition.

I don't understand your argument...  You're saying that if Africa were
like the rest of the world, IXes would be a profit-making enterprise,
although they aren't in the rest of the world?

I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Brian made the assertion that the dollar cost of intra-African traffic
shipped through extra-African exchanges was approximately US$400M.
I emailed him to ask his sources privately, and Randy emailed to ask his
sources publicly.  I don't think I have reason to question the assertion,
I'd just like to see the backing source numbers.

                                -Bill



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