The Association for Progressive Communications (http://www.apc.org) reports on global broadband access victories in South Africa and Bolivia. 

South Africa is on the cusp of a major broadband infrastructure rollout. Seacom, a submarine cable initiative, will link South Africa to India and Europe by mid-2009, breaking the state monopoly and bringing down the cost of international bandwidth. And the new government isn't ready for this, say a coalition of South Africans. So to help, they've put together a policy framework that could ensure that broadband develops so all South Africans benefit and thats been signed by thousands of their compatriots. 

In San Ignacio de Moxos, an area located in the Beni region of northern Bolivia, the only Internet connection available was an expensive and intermittent telphone connection. Since March 2006, thanks to the local capesino center and wireless Internet, the main institutions in the area have been interconnected, so the inhabitants can access the Internet at a quarter of the price it used to cost them, connecting them to each other, the rest of the nation, and the world.