Commentary in the Economist last week about the three undersea cables that are FINALLY getting connected in Kenya. East Africa may  the last highly populated area on earth that has been getting by with slow and expensive satellite internet. The new cables, the first of which is due to come online very soon, should dramatically improve speed and dramatically lower the price of access.

Paul Lamb has a great opinion piece in the San Jose Mercury News talking about the importance of wireless connectivity rather than "broadband" (by which he means fixed-line broadband). As he points out, at least in California, people don't have fixed broadband because it's not available, but because they don't want it. 

What they want is mobile.