Mauritius WiFi Country : First Cyber Island

Mauritius is expected to become the world’s first nation with coast-to-coast wireless Internet coverage, the first country to become one big “hot spot” says Yahoo News.

Some snippets from the Yahoo News reports

“If there’s anyone who can do it, it’s us,” said Rizwan Rahim, the head of ADB Networks, the company installing the wireless radio network across the 40-mile-long island. “It’s a small place, so for a wireless network it’s manageable. For us, it’s a test. If it’s successful here, we can island-hop to [mainland] Africa.”

“It is our vision to transform Mauritius into a cyber-island,” said Deelchand Jeeha, the country’s minister of information technology and telecommunications, in a speech last year. The nation, he said, “is confident in the potential of [the industry] as an engine of growth which can generate jobs and wealth creation.”

“Remote Mauritius is in many respects well-placed to win the high-tech investment it wants. An undersea broadband fiber-optic cable, completed three years ago, gives the island fast and reliable phone and Internet links with the rest of Africa and with Europe, India and Malaysia.”

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