You might find this article interesting.
-Steve
]]>I once read somewhere that if one wants to download 100GB of something, it’s cheaper — and faster — for someone in South Africa (because of Telkom’s strict bandwidth limits) to fly to Hong Kong, download the information in an Internet cafe and fly back. It’s not cheap, but cheaper.
]]>I’m sure their numbers aren’t 100% accurate. Maybe someone at Wired called up a friend in Jo’burg and asked him what he thought the going rate was at the internet cafe… Or, maybe they actually did do a better study.
Either way, it’s an interesting graphic.
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