Welcome to your weekly dose of WTF. This week, we’re focusing on an ArsTechnica story that reveals just how ridiculously expensive Internet access is in Kazakhstan. State-owned Kazakhtelecom offers unlimited dialup access for the cheap rate of $111 a month. An unlimited 1.5Mbps DSL connection will cost you $3355 a month (not including the modem charges) while a sweet 6Mbps cable connection will set you back by $22032 a month.
These numbers come from the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe. As if the high prices were not enough, the government has filters and restrictions in place to block anything it doesn’t like. For example, it shut down borat.kz so that Sacha Baron Cohen would not bad-mouth Kazakhstan from a .kz domain.
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