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Current State of the African Internet
The derived throughputs measured to Africa from N. America for the last decade are shown below in the left hand figure. It is seen that not only do African sites lag the rest of the world in throughput, being roughly in the state that European sites were over a decade and a half ago, but also they are falling further behind with time. Further, bear in mind that for Africa, Mediterranean countries and South Africa have the better perfomance and E. Africa is the worst off (see the the left middle map below). Thus the arrival of a terrestrial submarine fibre cable link to the rest of the world for E. Africa is a very significant development.
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