"In June David Weekly, a Google product manager, looked at loading speeds for various websites as he sat in Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi. The quality of the Wi-Fi itself was excellent but many sites were still loading slowly, so Weekly investigated where those sites were being served from. He found that Facebook and Google Kenya were reaching him from London; Apple was coming to him from Paris; and Twitter was trekking all the way from Atlanta, Georgia...
Angani is one of the key players now changing that story. As its CEO, Phares Kariuki, told me, “in our Nairobi office there are four different infrastructure providers running high speed fiber links just to our building. So when it comes to infrastructure on the ground we have more infrastructure than some US cities. We also have a multitude of undersea cables for bringing in data internationally—four cables land in Mombasa alone. So raw capacity is no longer the issue. But the speeds are still not improving, as David Weekly pointed out, simply because the content is not hosted locally. We lose the benefits of having in-country delivery infrastructure by not having reliable hosting infrastructure.”"
http://qz.com/472028/why-your-internet-connection-is-slow-wherever-you-are-in-africa/
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