[NCUC-EC] Out of contact

[Norbert Klein]

Dear Friends on these Lists,

today, I would like to explain why I have been silent for so many weeks: 
At the beginning of March 2013, I moved from Phnom Penh to Kep - about 4 
to 5 hours by bus south of Phnom Penh. I do not live in the city of Kep, 
but about half an hour away by a rural motorcycle-taxi.

What I had not checked before moving there was wireless Internet 
connection -- believing the claim of a dozen Internet service providers 
that they cover the whole country. Now, the "Father of the Internet in 
Cambodia" (as I am sometimes called in the local newspapers) is again 
suffering from the "digital divide," which I had tried to close when I 
started the first Internet provider system in Cambodia in 1994.

I am in negotiations with several ISPs in the region, trying to find out 
if anything could be done to overcome this isolation. So far, there is 
not yet much hope, because they would add coverage only if they could 
expect several hundred new user in that area - and that is completely 
beyond any realistic projection.

Though I still hope to get Internet access again in the not too distant 
future, or have access by traveling regularly to places covered, I 
wanted to share this. Also, as a member of the Executive Committee, I am 
not living up to my expected obligations (and I am aware of it) - so I 
would like to ask for a frank discussion whether and when and how I 
should be replaced.

At present, I am in Phnom Penh for a few days, having Internet access, 
and I am struggling to wade through several thousand e-mail headers.

Greetings to all - please remember that the digital divide continues to 
exists, in spite of all the discussions about net neutrality and 
universal broadband access etc. etc.


Norbert Klein

All new:

Tel: +855 - 88 9513015
P. O. Box 9829
Kep
Cambodia




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