Message-ID: <9606061306.AA04019@mail.candw.lc> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 08:06:44 -0500 From: mailto:daym@CANDW.LC> Subject: INTERNET technology availability outside of the USA To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Dear Jerry,St. Lucia recently came on completely on line in September 1995. The ISP is the phone giant monopoly Cable and Wireless. We have all services. The ISP supports 28.8 Kb modems. ISDN lines should available within a year. (Though the General Manager that pushed the set up of the net is no longer here so it is to be seen whether the new Manager takes up the challenge. All subscribers are provided a free home page for non-comercial use. They do not provide comercial web pages yet and alot of business is going to off shore providers. 20 hours of connnect time costs EC $140. ($50.00 US). There is no extra charge for number of messages like the friend from India suffers with. Connect time is sold in increments of 20 hours. so we poor people are careful not to go over twenty hours.
A few years ago a local NGO started a buliteen board service with international email available at a flat rate ($EC #30.00 per month unlimited messages). The mail was collected at a server in Canada that automaticly dialed in and dumped mail three times per day. The service is still available and 20% of full access and used by alot of people.
The NGO could have been the ISP provider because the OAS Organ of American States is supporting a Hemispheric proroject to hook up the North and South Americas. If I can remember I'll look for the business card of the high priced, Wash DC based consultant that has travled through the Hemisphere doing the premininary work. The OAS project provides the hardeware (About US $100,000 investment in St. Lucia) The local country (read USERS) provides the recurrent costs. Unfortunalty the NGO was unable to move on the opportunity presented and a few years latter C&W came in and gobbled up the market.
Other countries in the Eastern Caribbean that I know of that are hooked up with full local dial up access include Antigua, Dominica and Barbados (Barbados has three ISP and their service is more reasonable given the compitition.)
Hope this helps. If I were you I would have circulated a questionaire. Easier to tablulate.
Regards
Marcus Day St. Lucia
PS I am interested in the results
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I would appreciate any information from participants of these lists regarding the availability of different types of INTERNET technologies around the world. In particular how widely available is access to email, gophers, ftp, nongraphical World Wide Web browsers (e.g. celleo, Lynx) and graphical browsers such as Netscape and Mosaic.
I am also concerned about the cost to users in academia, government, and business of using these different technologies.
For either question, any response or experience would be useful.
I have agreed to serve as chair for the Technology Committee for the International Council for Small Business - an organization operating in over 40 nations. I am looking for help in assessing what types of technologies we should use to deliver information and access to ICSB materials to members and to the small business and economic development communities worldwide.
Please feel free to respond to me via email. You are also welcome to respond via my WWW site (http://www.slu.edu/eweb). Although email is not enabled in my gopher site, you can check it out also (gopher://egopher.slu.edu:71).
I will be meeting with my colleagues at the ICSB World Conference in Stockholm, June 15, and will take your result there. I will, of course post summaries to these lists later in the month.
Thanks for your assistance.
Jerry Katz
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