| ...and then there is Rwanda I f anyone has any doubt about what a cohesive national broadband policy can do...you only have to look at Rwanda, a country home to one of the worst genocides of our time. The new government has bet bigtime on broadband and telecom to give these people a life. Almost every school has a broadband connection which was almost unthinkable 10yrs ago. They are laying fiber at a rapid pace. The population is one of the most educated now in Africa. Private companies building out this network...not hardly. Its the Rwandan government. In fact, look at any of the broadband "heavyweights" S Korea, Japan, etc. Its the governments that are pushing deployment not private enterprise. There is no economic incentive to build out at that pace. Look at the electrical grid in the US. If it was left to private enterprise, the people just getting broadband in Louisiana might be talking about just getting electricity...
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