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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>My previous employer had an
office in Addis Ababa and while we weren’t doing voip, connectivity there is
horrible. Even when we had to lodge visiting employees in the Hilton their
internet was not stable and that was one of the more expensive western places
there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Joris Arts<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 24, 2008 5:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Louis Koekemoer (ZA)'; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] VOIP in Ethiopia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Louis,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Not in Ethiopia,
however my experience in other countries in Africa has learned me that the
availability of reliable connections is heaviliy depending on the location:
Capitals and economic centres have international connections via landline or
aggregted VSAT and are capable of running Voip or even Video over IP. Prepare
for high circuit costs though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>I am currently doing
a video over IP project with VSAT connections into Angola, Congo, Cameroon and
Nigeria. Though the costs are high, the service is possible at a fair quality,
even if the latency is huge (over 400 ms).<br>
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If you move away from the main cities it will be an entirely different story:
then probably you need your private VSAT connection, which is a costly affair,
I don’t think there will be network connections out of Addis Abeba or any other
main city in Ethiopia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>My 5 cents...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Joris Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Speechworks
Consultancy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Looiersgracht 78<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='color:#1F497D'>jarts@speechworks.nl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Louis Koekemoer (ZA)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24 November 2008 18:59<br>
<b>To:</b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] VOIP in Ethiopia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA>Has anyone had any experience with VOIP in
Ethiopia?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.0pt'>Louis Koekemoer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.0pt'>Cisco IPT Systems
Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dimension Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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