I also live in South Africa. Our mobile networks are in pretty good shape: * Anyone can buy a prepaid SIM from any supermarket and access the Internet within

I also live in South Africa. Our mobile networks are in pretty good shape: * Anyone can buy a prepaid SIM from any supermarket and access the Internet within 10 or 20 minutes. Last time I visited France, it took me 4 days to achieve a similar result. * Mobile data is cheap when buying in bulk. I pay USD2 per gigabyte. * LTE coverage is growing fast and RTT is good. For example my ping time to google.com is 30ms. Conclusion: Private ownership and free markets lead to good service and low cost. ESKOM proves that state ownership of companies and monopolies lead to bad service at high cost.