Re: Africa spends US$400 million on internal traffic

["Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch at darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

see also appendix 3 of the infodev "economic toolkit"

http://www.infodev.org/projects/internet/010toolkit/index.htm

which has some cost modeling data.

If someone used the spreadsheets and provide a "real world"
set of calculations that might be a good thing ;-)

Lucy E. Lynch 				Academic User Services
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On Thu, 15 May 2003, Lucy E. Lynch wrote:

> All -
>
> Mike Jensen has once again synthasized the current available
> data into a new report for the World Economic Forum -
> see: http://tesla.uoregon.edu/~llynch/ICT-africa.pdf
>
> link costs are not clearly stated, but telephony & internet connection
> data are listed seperately by country.
>
> the bibliography has some additional pointers and some of the hard data
> seems to come from this site:
>
> http://www.africanconnection.org/actdb/business/stepone.cfm
>
> the full (global) report info is here:
> http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Global+Competitiveness+Programme%5CReports%5CGlobal+Information+Technology+Report+2002-2003+-+Readiness+for+the+Networked+World
>
> Lucy E. Lynch 				Academic User Services
> Computing Center			University of Oregon
> llynch at darkwing.uoregon.edu		(541) 346-1774/Cell: 912-7998
>
> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > > Kenya Tariffs:
> > > Africa - COMESA US$ 1.20
> > > Rest of Africa, Europe, North America, India
> > > Austrialia & UAE US$ 1.46
> > > Rest of World US$ 1.82
> >
> > and what is the price of a mango?  this interests me more than telco
> > tariffs
> >
> > i.e., what the heck does this have to do with the INTERNET?
> >
> > randy
> >
> >
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