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Left hand figure from UNDP http://www.apdip.net/projects/dig-rev/info/ middle & right hand figure from Asia Internet Usage and Population Stats. Note that we believe that http://www.apdip.net/projects/dig-rev/info/ figures are 2005/2006 at the latest (there is evidence that many ofthe figures are for 2001-2002 or earlier), while Asia Internet Usage and Population Stats are 2007. This is very important since the growth in Internet users from 2000-2007 was 700% for India and 8,862% for Pakistan. There is also information at http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php but the date for the Internet users per capita appears to be 2004, and the users/capita looks wrong by a factor of 1000.
Average and Min RTT from SLAC to South Asian Countries
Afghanistan
PingER has three three sites in Afghanistan that are monititored and they were quite hard to get. For example the Kabul University host is a firewall that does not have stable power and so is usually turned off at night. Also these sites have minimum RTTs greater than 700 ms which indicates that they are all on satellite. The Kabul host is connected via the Silk Roadsatellite that passes through DESY, Germany. The other two are connected via Telia a European ISP. On March 10, 2003, Afghanistan went live on the Web which was previous banned under the Taliban rule. The Internet infrastructure in Afghanistan is immature and the pricing for internet is quite high.
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