Re: Tanzanian ISPs move closer to establishing an Internet exchange

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:53:32PM +0000, ALAIN PATRICK AINA wrote:
> 
> 
> > could you give us the basis for the $400m figure?
> 
> Do you also want to know the basis when WHO said " MALARIA KILLS ONE PERSON 
> EVERY 20 SECOND IN AFRICA"? ;-)

That statistic can easily be checked: it equates to about 1.5m people dying
per year, which sounds plausible to me, and I trust the WHO to count the
death certificates.

But the $400m figure seems ludicrous. Surely all the ISPs in Africa together
don't even spend that much on transit and link costs? And then only a small
fraction of that can be saved by peering.

Regards,

Brian.

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