Island nation to go wireless by year end
Mauritius, an island nation off the eastern coast of Africa, intends to complete a wireless network that spans coast to coast (a sum distance of 40 miles) by year end, according to the Chicago Tribune. Sixty percent of the country already has a wireless signal available, serving 70 percent of the nation’s 1.2 million people.
Apparently the Indian Ocean isn’t such a bad spot to make a go of such things:
“Remote Mauritius is in many respects well-placed to win the high-tech investment it wants. An undersea broadband fiber-optic cable, completed three years ago, gives the island fast and reliable phone and Internet links with the rest of Africa and with Europe, India and Malaysia….The government’s efforts have brought in investment by players like Microsoft, Oracle, Accenture and India’s Infosys Technologies and created about 2,000 jobs in the past two years.”
