The broadband disease

A worrying trend that, that has been coming to my attention over the past few months has this preoccupation by everyone, especially the media with broadband and everything to do with it.
The T.V and radio stations cannot seen to get enough of TEAMS, SEACOM and EASSy. What is even more worrying though is that the Few kenyans who have gotten to taste a few benefits of internet seen to have forgotten what it was like to live without internet connectivity. Those who should be promoting sustainable ways of gaining internet connectivity are also caught up in the hype of high speed internet, knowing that they will be amongst the chosen few who will get to enjoy immediate benefits from the soon to come "broadband"
What I consider newsworthy are reports such as those showing how data enabled mobile phones shipping to africa will outnumber non data enabled ones for the first time this year.
Or the range of almost affordable, data enabled mobile phones that the major service providers are offering, albeit unenthusiastically.
The cheapest, most accessible way of providing internet bondativity is to use an already existing infrastructure, in this case the mobile telephone network, to propagate the new services. Providing each and every kenyan with a $35 data enabled mobile phone is infinitley cheaper and easier than what it would entail to provide everyone with a personal computer and while the services that are accessible through a mobile phone are fewer than those that can be accessed through a desktop computer, all of the most relevant services can be accessed through the mobile phone