[afnog] Standards wars (was: [members-discuss] Alteration of the Constitution of AFRINIC)

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Dear Amin,
At 11:46 AM 07-08-2025, Amin Dayekh wrote:
>I read your email with keen interest. I will leave the debate on the 
>legal matters until a later time, but as you are

I read your article.[1]  There was a standards war over CDMA and GSM. 
GSM ended up as the dominant mobile phone standard.  It's not 
something new. There is usually two or more technologies competing 
against each other. A service provider which chooses the "wrong" 
technology ends up being at a disadvantage.

I was chatting with someone from the West African region several year 
ago.  The person mentioned that the recommendation which he got was 
to purchase a specific equipment to connect to the upstream 
provider.  I commented that he doesn't have to purchase a specific 
make of equipment to run BGP.

5G was sold as 1 ms latency magic. There is a 2018 article about 
latency over a 5G connection: https://www.senki.org/5g-latency-reality-checks/

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

1. 
https://medium.com/@AminDayekh/floppy-disk-to-cloud-dial-up-to-5g-3f189bdc36ed