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MONTEVIDEO
(KAH for APCNews) – South Africa is on the cusp of major broadband
infrastructure roll-out. Seacom, a submarine cable initiative, will
link South Africa to India and Europe by mid-2009, breaking the state
monopoly and bringing down the cost of international bandwidth. And the
new government isn’t ready for this, say a coalition of South Africans.
So to help, they’ve put together a policy framework that could ensure
that broadband develops so that all South Africans benefit and that’s
been signed up to by thousands of their compatriots. More
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JOHANNESBURG
(BroadBand4Africa) – Does broadband really make a difference to
economic growth? Are there other similar broadband campaigns elsewhere
in Africa? The South Africa broadband campaign has answers to these
questions on its campaign site www.broadband4africa.org.za. APC has
translated this essential information into French and Portuguese for
our African readers and Spanish for Latin American readers fed up of
paying over the odds for what’s now the basic internet connectivity
required to access today’s interactive sites. (Links to the other
languages can be found at the bottom of the page). More
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MONTEVIDEO
(Natalia Uval for APCNews) – In San Ignacio de Moxos, an area
located in the Beni region of northern Bolivia, the only internet
connection available was an expensive and intermittent telephone
connection. Since March 2006, thanks to the local campesino centre and
wireless internet, the main institutions in the area have been
interconnected, so that the inhabitants can access the internet at a
quarter of the price it used to cost them, connecting them to each
other, the rest of the nation and the world. More
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MONTEVIDEO
(KAH for APCNews) – APC member, Fantsuam Foundation established the
first rural community wireless internet service provider (ISP) in
Nigeria in 2006. On Tuesday April 21 the ISP took a huge blow as the
central communication tower was destroyed in a storm. Several buildings
including the old network operation centre, a Cisco Laboratory and a
neighboring building were seriously damaged. No people were hurt. This
is the second major natural disaster that Fantsuam has suffered in a
few months. In August 2008, a lighting strike destroyed a large part of
their power and wireless infrastructure. APC is waiting for news of how
you can help Fantsuam rebuild. For now visit the IT46 site for more
details. More
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