The poor pay more for everything.
The title of this article makes it sound like people are being ripped off in Africa. That is not the case or, at least, that isn't the major issue. Africa has almost no internet infrastructure, no fiber underground, useless telephone lines, nothing. The cheap price for Americans is due to the massive over-investment in cable during the dot-com boom. None of that reached Africa. The poor do pay more for everything, because the rich invest nothing in infrastructure to help. The sad thing is that we live in an era where communication can be basically free. Email, VOIP services like Skype and the rest could stimulate African economies, if there was anyway to get the services to a majority of people.
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