Re: Tanzanian ISPs move closer to establishing an Internet exchange

[Brian Longwe <brian at pch.net>]

Kenya's ratios show approx. 30-40% local

While in South Africa 4 weeks ago I heard that some ISPs at JINX show up
to 70% local with 30% international - obviously this needs to be
corroborated by Ant, Johann or another South African ;-)

Longwe

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Randy Bush wrote:

> >> On the generous assumption that within-country traffic counts for
> >> 20% of volume...
> > That's not a generous assumption, that's a very low assumption
>
> actually, measurements in many cultures show this is quite culturally
> dependent, and is espeically dependent on language.  i.e., japan has
> very high intra-country traffic, england low.  i suspect africa's
> heavy use of colonial languages and low 'real'-language net content,
> may make the 20% figure somewhat optimistic.
>
> but i would very much like to see *real* measurements and *real* numbers.
> e.g., ant, do you have anything for za?
>
> randy
>
>
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