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Entire Country Going Offline Over $700,000 Bill?
Ed Kohler

It's pretty amazing to realize that $700,000 can basically cut an entire country off from partipating in world markets, from accesing international news, and from communicating with people around the globe:

Zimbabwe internet slows to crawl as debts unpaid - Yahoo! News

"Internet traffic in Zimbabwe has come close to a standstill after an international satellite firm slashed its bandwidth because the cash-starved government failed to pay the bill.

Government-owned TelOne, which owns the country's main satellite Internet link, said satellite firm Intelsat had cut its international bandwidth because it failed to pay the $700,000 fee."
Clearly, access to bandwidth is only one of many many problems faces by Zimbabwe today. However, without comminications channels like this that allow for communication with the outside world, how will we be able to understand and address the challenges faced by this country?

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