Edem and I spent part of the afternoon walking between meetings. As we were walking by, these boys had discovered a tire and were working on taking it someplace.
Today, it's rainy. Started raining last night, and hasn't let up -- some great thunderstorms this morning and there is flooding around the city. But we don't let that slow us down, 5 meetings on the docket today, but so far tomorrow looks light with only 2 so far.
Our Internet connection at the compound was not working, so I'm working from an Internet cafe -- about $1.20 USD for 30 minutes of time, but the connectivity is pretty darn good (278kbps down with 32 kbps up -- Vital Technology is the name of the place).
It's amazingly low price considering what they have to go through to get access here. All of the equipment is expensive and taxed rather heavily. The license fees for VSAT add to the burden as does the cost of burning diesel to keep the power going. Satellite bandwidth is just plain expensive.
The mobile market is doing very well here, with some providers now offering GPRS, others with money transfers, and others offering fixed wireless Internet access.
Kipp
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