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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/Aug/15 08:10, Meoli Kashorda
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<div>Dear Patrick,</div>
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<div>As you have seen in our discussions, our interest is country
you country local traffic compared to global traffic mainly
through Europe. We see very low traffic between African
countries - traffic follows content! </div>
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<div>I would still be interested in country by country
international traffic data and maybe IP transit costs in
Africa. </div>
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<div>By the way, peering is NOT free for us in Africa - we have
to pay for expensive national leased lines to peering nodes!
Sometimes that can be more expensive than peering in Europe!
So the picture is complex - is content that is driving our
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There are also quite a few links between operators in Africa. This
could be a backbone extension of the same network, or an
interconnect between different operators. The payload carried on
these links is generally IP, but it's hard to quantify unless the
researcher asks the question specifically. Not capturing this data
will skew the results greatly.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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