ICANN CEO, Rod Beckstrom, urges African leaders to "shatter" telecommunications monopolies in their nations in order to help lower the price of Internet access to their citizens during his opening remarks at the start of the 37th ICANN meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. Beckstrom noted that while 15 percent of the world's population lives in Africa, Africans make up less than 7 percent of all Internet users.
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Did he wish for pie in the sky as well while he was at it?
Expecting a monopoly to break up all by itself is rather wishful thinking. Especially a lucrative monopoly that depends on artificially high access charges and voice settlement for their revenue stream.