[WSIS CS-Plenary] Control of communications in Tunisia - not enough bandwidth, or something worse...

[Rik Panganiban]

As far as I have heard, the only ones with significant access problems 
were people with Macs.  And the techies in the local secretariat staff 
seemed genuinely concerned about fixing this.

Someone could do some research if it is even possible to limit access 
to only macintoshes intentionally and directly.

Rik Panganiban

On 25 juin 04, at 12:45, Robert Guerra wrote:

> I'm curious if anyone has been able to determine the reasons behind 
> the internet access issues at the Prepcom.
>
> I ask, as at the march informal meeting - all went well, and 
> connectivity was good enough to not only be on  IM, but also have 
> Voice over IP working (i had voice over iChat working on my mac).
>
> The simple, and obvious reply would be one of inadequate bandwith for 
> the amount of people - but, is it that simple ? Given Tunisia's well 
> documented  record of internet censorship - might it be that internet 
> access has been made difficult on purpose so that real time 
> communications be hard, if not impossible.  it would be consistent 
> with known practice....
>
>
> something to think about -
>
> regards
>
> Robert
>
>
>
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