<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1629670118315">Hi Owen,</div><div><br></div><div>Let me also point out that, the examples you have given of Akamai and Hurricane are not vaporwares.</div><div><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1629670172131">In fact, both companies have invested in putting in place telecommunication network to serve customers in Africa besides their many customers in America. </div><div><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1629670041364">My understanding is that they use small number of their IP resources on their small network in Africa to provide services to the customers in Africa.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1629670090164"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1629670108617"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1629670091575">Mirriam.</div><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 8:28 PM, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss</div><div><community-discuss@afrinic.net> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">Community-Discuss mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net" href="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net">Community-Discuss@afrinic.net</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss</a><br clear="none"> </div> </blockquote>