Impoverished Ethiopia launches broadband internet service
Figure this one out. You'd think that something like, um, say... food, would be a tad more important that a fast Internet connection. Or maybe I'm wrong...
An AFP article on Yahoo! News reports that:
Impoverished Ethiopia launched the first phase of an ambitious three-year plan to wire the entire country for Internet access with the inauguration of broadband service in the capital.
While not cheap and available only to about 100,000 people in Addis Ababa, officials said they hoped to soon reduce fees and expand the service as part of the project to harness information communication technology to fight the crushing poverty that afflicts most of its population of 70 million.
posted by Fergie @ 5/05/2005 11:17:00 AM
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