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I don't know if this is practically true for a lot of these countries. In a lot of these countries, a vast majority of the population doesn't have easy educati
by exacube 11y ago
I don't know if this is practically true for a lot of these countries. In a lot of these countries, a vast majority of the population doesn't have easy education, and are often poor.
Countries like India have a much better percentage (but still small) of the population that can afford the internet, that ISPs are incentivized to grow and expand. Countries like Zambia -- not so much (I don't actually know if internet.org is in Zambia). I don't know that a small business in Zambia has the capital to expand considering how many people can afford it.
- sa1 11y agoInteresting question. Should foreign companies be allowed to create monopolies, because potential local competitors do not have enough capital currently? I guess the obvious answer is no, but its still an interesting line of discussion.
- sangnoir 11y ago>I don't know that a small business in Zambia has the capital to expand considering how many people can afford it. The answer is yes. There is a Liquid Telecom[1] is laid lots of fibre in Zambia, with the intention of having fibre coverage from 'Cape to Cairo' 1.http://liquidtelecom.com/news-events/news/263-liquid-telecom-expands-its-fibre-network-in-zambia http://liquidtelecom.com/news-events/news/263-liquid-telecom...