Yet another reason to get angry with Bill...

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 19 March 2006 07:37, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Duncan Anderson">
>
> > Aha! You also had a Speccy! But seriously, I agree with you that
> > this OLPC has a lot of potential. The biggest problem with
> > getting these users onto the internet will be infrastructural,
> > though. where I live there isn't even support for ADSL or 3G, no
> > matter how hard you look.
>
> IP over railway tracks and IP over power (both overhead and railway
> will do). Seriously.

Both are totally realistic, but I still get strange looks when I 
mention it. Folk seem to think the landline telco has the most copper 
and the biggest network. Not so, SpoorNet (railway) and Eskom (power) 
have networks that dwarf the telco. And the nice part: the power 
cables have fibre running through the core, most of it still dark.

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Alan McKinnon
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