$170/month

That's the price AZUR pays for dial-up internet that, for the past two months, continues to become slower and slower. With three or four colleagues online at once there is a virtual logjam where no one is able to navigate without cutting someone else's connection. 

$170/month. That's almost equal to the rent AZUR pays for the house where we all work. 

The Congo and other countries in the region are in the process of building a new underground fiber-optic network that will connect to the rest of the world. I know very little about the trans-atlantic fiber-optic cable or any others for that matter, but it basically means that in a few years' time the Congo will have better quality and faster internet for its customers, which in theory should lead to an increase in demand and lower prices. In theory.