"the result is Africa becoming a dumping ground for all of that equipment (as the vendors scramble to off-load these toxic assets) — either as cheap equipment for the market or as “technical aid”. [...] I’ve seen this before — stores filled with ’donated’ networking equipment that the recipient was unable to use because the technology was old and worthless or never even existed in most African countries (think hubs and routers with ATM interfaces in Northern Cameroon or Nigeria)."
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