RE: Africa spends US$400 million on internal traffic

[Robert.Shaw at itu.int]

It's empirical.

See http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/ipdc/workshop/presentations/Abramson.ppt

Slide 11

In Europe, 75% of connectivity is inter-regional

In Africa, it's less than 1%

In all regions, except Africa, there is rapid growth to
inter-regional traffic.

International leased circuits cost lots of money.

Africa pays for the full cost of these international circuits.

This is in turn passed onto users - in some cases, 80% of the costs for 
users is due to the international connectivity components. See Section 
3.4 on Market Conditions in 
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/ipdc/study/Improving%20IP%20Connectivity%20in%
20the%20Least%20Developed%20Countries1.pdf

Bob
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Robert Shaw <robert.shaw at itu.int>
ITU Internet Strategy and Policy Advisor
Strategy and Policy Unit <http://www.itu.int/spu/>

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