Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by prr 5552 days ago
> Another problem is the sheer expense of broadband internet connection. Hosting is too expensive for many would be internet start-ups.

Fun fact: AT&T played a large role in f###ing SA's internet up; with dodgy political deals, lousy infrastructure support and horrific bandwidth caps.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/07/08/26/1642210/How-SBC-ATam...

[edit] Slashdot article link is dead, copy here: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/1090.html