[afnog] Challenges in the African Continent

[SM]

At 06:27 27-03-2009, Shaheel Luckoo - Personal wrote:
>challenge for the future. If we look at other continents or 
>countries we notice that the end users have a very high bandwidth 
>for inland communications and that too at a very low cost. For 
>example in Hong Kong the end users have enormous bandwidth for 
>services and websites being hosted locally. I am well aware that the 
>International bandwidth is quite high for this part of the world and 
>also the lack of inadequate telecommunication infrastructure because 
>of the rural divide which exists in Africa.

Is there a demand for additional bandwidth?

You mentioned Hong Kong.  You could do regional comparison of the two 
markets.  BTW, the problem is not specific to the African continent.

>I am well aware that the majority of our continent's web hosting are 
>being done either in the US or in European countries.

What are the benefits of doing web hosting locally?

Regards,
-sm