sat-3 cut?

Mon Aug 10 12:49:51 UTC 2009

> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/business/global/10cable.html

if seacom completes, and it is looking likely (yay!), this will be great.
but

    Alan Mauldin, research director at TeleGeography, a telecommunications
    market research company, said Africa was the last major area where
    broadband access was not widespread.

try much of the pacific islands, central asia (the stans), myanmar, much of
india, laos, cambodia, and large swaths of northern china and the middle of
russia.  and i am sticking to places with non-sparse population.

americans are a bit naive about the rest of the world.

randy