Re:Notorious, right (Score 1)

You are seeing this as a political or societal problem, but for having been there recently (actually not in Mauritania, but a little bit south in Senegal), I can tell you that internet sucks. It sucks on many point (even if you pay the price. First I'd like to say that local network (in main city) is decent, but there is no local web hoster, so every site are hosted on OVH or 1&1 in Europe. So you'll have you're local web traffic going through Europe in the over-saturated ocean links. Worst, if you want to access a site located in Ivory Coast from Dakar in Senegal, the TCP/IP route will go though London... The same fiber cable that gets data to London to Abidjan sits a few kilometers outside of Dakar... Well doing better BGP is not rocket science, we shall just try to do a better thing with what we already have!