Internet Infrastructure in Africa: Status and Opportunities
There is a major information gap in Africa, where access to information is structurally disabled.This study was conducted taking the University of Dodoma in Tanzania as a case study. The causes for poor internet access were identified as: Lack of alignment between last-mile, middle-mile, and long-range network infrastructure; Tyranny of bad on-premises network design; Up to 15 network hops just to leave on-premises network architecture; Lack of best-practice templates and benchmarks for on-premises, middle-mile and national backbone network architecture in emerging and developing markets; and local operators charging exorbitant bandwidth prices. The US Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) definition of broadband is 25 Mbps per host. The World Bank defines broadband as 12 Mbps per hundred consumers.According to the United Nations, broadband is a basic human right and an absolute necessity for productivity and sustainable growth
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(1) Muhammad Tehsin
Assistant Professor, Department of Defence % Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Muntazir Mehdi
Works at Microsoft.
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APA : Tehsin, M., & Mehdi, M. M. (2019). Internet Infrastructure in Africa: Status and Opportunities. Global Social Sciences Review, IV(III), 451 – 461. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).56
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CHICAGO : Tehsin, Muhammad, and Muhammad Muntazir Mehdi. 2019. "Internet Infrastructure in Africa: Status and Opportunities." Global Social Sciences Review, IV (III): 451 – 461 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).56
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TURABIAN : Tehsin, Muhammad, and Muhammad Muntazir Mehdi. "Internet Infrastructure in Africa: Status and Opportunities." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. III (2019): 451 – 461. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).56