<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>++1<div>Nothing is free</div><div>If Someone has found the way to rightfully earn revenue ... Should go ahead provided they do not affect others unfavourably...</div><div>Need to have a neutral Regulator though...<br><br><br><font size="2">From Yassin . Sent from samsung mobile. On O2.</font> </div><br><br><br>Alioune Traore <alioune_b_traore@yahoo.fr> wrote:<br><br><br><br><br>+1 Dr Nii<br><br><br>------------------------------<br>Le jeu. 18 oct. 2012 22:21 HAEC, Nii Narku Quaynor a écrit :<br><br>>Ack. Africa should focus and build its Internet industries <br>><br>>On Oct 18, 2012, at 16:01, SM <sm@resistor.net> wrote:<br>><br>>> The image at http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/8/2/1343919312614/Internet-map-008.jpg could be used as input to answer the question in the subject line. Africa is a quarter the size of South America in terms of addressability. The most visible ccTLD in Africa is .za which is 0.3% of the web. The total international bandwidth for Africa is 1 Tbps. It was mentioned that Africa has less international bandwidth than Austria.<br>>> <br>>> In other news a well-known search engine has threatened to exclude some sites in a country from search results if the country goes ahead with plans to make search engines pay for content.<br>>> <br>>> Regards,<br>>> -sm<br>>> <br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> AfrICANN mailing list<br>>> AfrICANN@afrinic.net<br>>> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann<br>><br>>_______________________________________________<br>>AfrICANN mailing list<br>>AfrICANN@afrinic.net<br>>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br>AfrICANN@afrinic.net<br>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann<br> </body>