The military provides just 6-12 computers for every 1,000 or so troops, time limits of 10-15 minutes per day are often enforced. Now, Hajjinets, the term for troop-owned ISPs, have sprung to life on almost every base around Iraq. A typical Hajjinet is built and maintained by one or two soldiers and can provide nearly 24-hr internet access.

Troops are using a satellite service out of the Ukraine to run their ISP’s, cost them $15,000 a month for 300 users. Smaller ISP pay for a smaller bandwidth for $1,500 a month. The soldiers are then charged a $100 start-up fee, and then pay just $60/month and all of these fee’s can be paid via PayPal. Of course family’s wanting to be in contact with their loved ones could probably manage to support their internet fee’s. Of course if the government was to try and do something like this, it would end up cost $300 a month and the tax payers would pick up the extra $400 a month just to keep the damn thing afloat. I think the most interesting thing is that most of the men involved in these Hajjinets have no trainning or experience in running a network. Welcome to CrzyLand.

-Nic

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