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Another way of looking at the poor situation in Africa is to look at Figure 11, illustrating the lack of Internet users in Africa compared to the rest of the world. At the bottom left of figure 11c is shown the growth of Internet users and cell phone subscribers. This may suggest that cell phone infrastructure may be a very valuable way to leverage Internet growth.
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- Poor performance affects data transfer, multi-media, VoIP, IT development & country performance / development.
- DD exists between regions, within regions, within countries, rural vs cities, between age groups?.
- Decreasing use of satellites, expensive, but still needed for many remote countries in Africa and C. Asia.
- Last mile problems, and network fragility.
- International Exchange Points (IXPs) needed.
- Internet performance (non subjective, relatively easy/quick to measure) correlate measured by PingER correlates strongly with economic/technical/development indices.
- Increase coverage of monitoring to understand Internet performance and validate improvements.
- Africa worst by all measures (throughput, loss, jitter, DOI, international bandwidth, users, costs etc.) and falling further behind.
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