I'm just back home after three weeks in Lusaka, Zambia, where our vsat link running at 128kbps up, 384kbps down is costing us just over $2,000USD per month.
Yes, geo sync sat latency is a pain, but we'd take affordable bandwidth whatever way we can get it.
Against this kind of price gauging, people are still making it work (
http://link.net.zm/?q=node/230), but there like everywhere else, early adoption is costly (
http://link.net.zm/?q=node/217).