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ocirion on Feb 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: It is cheaper to fly to US than buy Adobe software...

This reminds me of a story[1] around 8 years ago of the eye-watering costs of ADSL in South Africa. Whereby it was cheaper to fly to Hong Kong and download 100GB of data in an internet cafe than it was from home using the incumbent telco provider, Telkom.

[1] http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/cheaper-to-fly-than-u...

zaidmo on Feb 13, 2013 [–]

I remember that! We also had the "Carrier Pigeon paster than ADSL" saga - we've made progress in SA!

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