Rwanda Tops Africa in Broadband Speed

Rwanda has overtaken Ghana to become the country with the the fastest broadband speed, according to latest statistics from Ookla's NetIndex.

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Rwanda currently relies on three submarine fibre optic cable systems for it internet connection.

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  • ras sideeq
    Nov 11 2012, 15:32

    " IF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA IS ANYTHING TO GO BY AFRICA SHOULD BE IN THE TOP TEN SHORTLY!!!!? THE NUMBER OF MOBIELE PHONES AND THE ADVANTAGES IT GIVES TO AFRICA IS PHENOMENAM; CHINA SELLS THE MOST ADVANCED 3G SERVICES AT CHEAPER PRICES THAN MOST NATIONS ,IT IS OUR DUTY TO MAKE THIS BENIFICIAL TO AFRICANS". " WE MUST TAKE ADVANTAGES OF ALL THE IDENTIFIABLE MATERIALS THAT WILL NEHANCE AFRICAN CAPACITY'; WE KNOW THAT EDUCATION IS PRIMARY IN AFRICA!!!. AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF UNDEREDUCATION AND THE DIEASE RIDDEEN WESTERN PORJECTS WITH THINSG KNOWN AS AID (AIDS) WHICH IS ALSO A WESTERN DRIVEN PROJECT OF THE PHYSICAL TYPE WHERE THE FIRST WAS THE MENTAL FRIVEN PROJECT OF DOWNWARD BACKWARD WEAKENING AGENDAS BY THE WEST'. " AFRICA MUST ATKE ITS DEVELOPMENT SERIOUSLY AND WE MUST ALWAYS BE VIGILANT AND REMEMBER SLAVERY WHICH HAS TWO COMPONENTS ONE IS PHYSICAL WHERE THEY FORCE YOU INTO CAPTIVITY AND BONDAGE WHERE YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF MAKING ANY DECISIONS ABOUT YORU LIFE AND THEY CAN PHYSICVALY ABUSE YOU AT WILL IN ANY PROPENSITY THEY CHOOSE'SECOND IS MENTAL SLAVEREY HWERE THEY BECOME LIONISED AS A SUPERIOR ENTITITY ALMOST IDENTIFIABLE AS GOD!!???THEN THERE IS THE MENTAL AGAIN HWERE THEY DEPLOY TRICKS AND DECEPTIONS FUEWLING CORRUPTION WITH MISLEADING DIRECTIONS TO FORCE THE ECONMIES TO BECOME DEPENDENT ON THEM ESPECIALLY WITH AID!!!; THEY ALSO HAVE THE BANKING TRICK WHICH IS THE NIMF; THIS IS THE MOTHER OF ALL SUBJUGATIONS WHEN THEY DELIVER THE FUNDS WHICH IS ALWAYS UNDERATED THEY THEN GIVE A LITANY OF OBJECTIVES THAT YOU MUST ABIDE BY WHICH IN FACT IS A CRIPPLER DESIGNED TO KEEP YOU FROM FULFILLING ANY OBJECTIVES THAT THE NATION MAY HAVE HAD FOR IMPROVEMENTS".." THEN THERE IS THE EXTORTIONARY SIDE OF THE LOAN WHERE THEY MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE SO DEEP IN DEBT THAT YOU WILL BE PAYING WHEN YOUR GERAT GRANDCHILDREN ARE NORN IN THE DESPERATE ABJECT POVERTY THAT YOU ASKED THEM TO BORROW TH MONEY FOR.THE MOST SURE WAY FORWARD FOR AFRICA IS TO BE FOOD CONFIDENT IMPROVE OUR AGRICULTURAL SKILLS MAKE IT WORTH WHILE TO OUR YOUNG FARMERS WHO SOME WHO LIKE TO FARM AND OTHERS WHO HAVE INHERRITED FARMS. AGRICULTURE HAS BEEN A BIG MECHANISM OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOR THOUSAMDS OF YEARS WE MUST NOT ALLOW FOR THE SKILL OF NURTURING THE EARTH FALL AMISS. WITH NEWE TECHNOL;OGIES WE CAN TRANSFORM FARMS FROM RURAL AREAS INTO GREAND COOPERATIVES WITHIN COMMUNITIES WE CAN ALSO ROLL OUT SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR THE RURAL CHILDREN WHERE CLASS ROOMS CAN BE SET UP TO PROGRESS ALONG WITH CLASS ROOMS IN THE CITY OR EVEN ON A INTERNATIONAL LEVEL. WITH GROWTH EVERYTHING IS CONCIEVEABLE WE CAN REACH OUR OBJECTIVES IN MUCH FASTER PERIOD. WHAT WE RECOGNISE WITH AFRICANS THEY ARE FAST LEARNERS THEY DO NOT TAKE LONG TO COTTON ON, ' ONCE THEY HAVE IT, THEY HAVE IT!!!!!!!. "I SAY SAY FOR AFRICA TO USE THIER ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS MAKE USE OF THE GOOD FREINDS THAT YOU HAVE TAKE ADVANATGE OF THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE VAIALABLE AT SCALED DOWN MARKET PRICES AND USE THEM TO DEVELOP WIZELY. ANOTHER THING IS THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT CHINA HAS ON OFFER TVS COMPUTERS AS WE SAY MOBILE TECHNOLOGY WHICH ARE ALL 3G AND ARE VERY VERY CHEAP IN COMPARISON TO EVEN INFERIOR TECHNOLOGY FROM THE USA BUT NON THE THE LESS 3G AND NAME BRAND WHERE YOU PAY FOR A HOUSE WITH THIER PRICES!!!, THE WEST IS NOT PEOPLE FREINDLY ,THEY ARE GREED DRIVEN ECONOMIES , THIER WAY IS NOT THE WAY FORWARD. AFRICA MUST LOOK TO STAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH EVERY OTHER NATION AND CONTINENT ON THE PLANET; WE HAVE THE ENVIRONMENT WE HAVE RICHES UNIMAGINABLE WE HAVE THE DESIRE EVEN MORE SO THAN EVER IN RECENT HSITORY AND WE ARE READY TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AS RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE. I SAY TO AFRICA WE NEED MORE INETR RELATED NNETWORKING AND LESS OF THE OUTSIDE AGENDAS; WE MUST ALWAYS REMEBER THAT WHEN EVER PEOPLE ON THE OUT HAVE MEANS AND WAYS FOR AFRICA THERE IS ALWAYS AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE THAT SPELLS DOOM FOR AFRICANS. AFRICA MUST NOT LET OUR INTITIATIVES GO WE MUST STAND FIRM UPRIGHT AND ALWAYS IN CONTROL OF OUR DESTINY. " NO WESTERN NATION HAS CONFIDENCE IN AFRICA THE ONLY THING THEY SPEAK ABOUT IS CORRUPTION!!!; THEY FORGETTING THAT IT WAS THEIR POLICIES THAT DROVE THIS CORRUPTION IN AFRICA IT WAS THEM WHO SPOON FED COERCED THREATENED BULLIED AFRICA INTO THIS SUBSERVIENT CONTINEWNT THAT ITR WAS YESTERDAY!!!!!". UNLESS WE BECOME BACKWARDS SILLY AND DO NOT LEARN FROM PAST HISTORY THERE IS NO REASON WE SHOULD SLIP IN TO THIS ABYSS OF DEFORMITY AND MENTAL RETARDATION!!!!. "" UP UP YOU MIGHTY RACE ACCOMPLISH WHAT YOU WILL""