While this may not seem any awe-inspiring news at first sight... if you consider that Akamai hosts websites like Microsoft, Apple, Intel & Adobe, then this is a revolution for our CyberTowerIsland. It was a week ago that My.T users reported on Avinash Meetoo's blog that they were getting great speeds when downloading updates from Microsoft & Apple. Akamai is one the largest CDN in the world, having servers in more than 70 countries. How Akamai works – Read more here. Actually it's been more than a month that Akamai have setup their servers in Mauritius. As for the location of the datacentre, it's quite probable that it's not at Albion, but rather at Ebene... So what does this mean for you? If you've got ADSL, nothing. But if you have My.T, you will now be getting full 2Mbps speed on these websites! (Download speed will be around 200-250KB/s) FUP? List of Websites being hosted by Akamai in Mauritius. Akamai - www.akamai.fr & www.akamai.com Intel - www.intel.com Microsoft (Download) - download.microsoft.com/download Nokia (Africa) - mea.nokia.com Adobe (Download) - download.adobe.com Audi - www.audi.com L'Equipe - www.lequipe.fr NBA - www.nba.com ESA - www.esa.int New Zealand - www.newzealand.com Manchester United - www.manutd.com AlloCiné - www.allocine.fr The Daily Telegraph - www.telegraph.co.uk Metacafe - www.metacafe.com Discovery Channel - dsc.discovery.com BBC News - newsimg.bbc.co.uk TopGear.com - www.topgear.com If you've discovered more sites, please do comment, I'll add it to the list. The Microsoft, Apple & Adobe sites aren't fully mirrored yet - only the download servers so far. Downloading Windows Updates, Apple Updates & software trials should be lightning fast! & when Orange will launch iPhone, downloading from iTunes Store (Mauritius) would be much easier! :) As for interesting content, try Apple Movie Trailers, MTV Music Vids & Nasa Multimedia. Tip: Don't use OpenDNS!!! Use default IP settings, i.e. MT's DNS so that you'll be automatically redirected to local Akamai servers. :) Update 2:
Then Avinash did some investigation on http://www.intel.com/ & the IP was revealed to be 196.27.66.8 & 196.27.66.9 - Mauritian IPs! 
20% of the world's Internet traffic is delivered over the Akamai platform.
Check this Visualizing Global Web Performance 
The actual speed should be between 1.5 to 1.8Mbps depending on your geographical location - but having a megabit connection is more than enough!!
Although this should be a local connection, Orange will still count it as they monitor your whole traffic usage.
Actually it's very easy to know which sites have a Mauritian IP. Just use the Flagfox extension (thanks to Who? for the tip!).
AMD - www.amd.com
Nvidia - www.nvidia.com
ATI - ati.amd.com
Live Search - www.live.com
Apple - images.apple.com
Apple (Download) - appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net
HTC - www.htc.com
Samsung - www.samsung.com
Sony (Africa) - www.sony-mea.com
Sony Ericsson - www.sonyericsson.com
Philips - www.philips.com
Symantec - www.symantec.com
Trend Micro - us.trendmicro.com
DivX (Download) - download.divx.com
Corel - www.corel.com
Winamp (Download) - download.nullsoft.com/winamp
BMW - www.bmw.com
Porsche - www.porsche.com
Toyota - www.toyota.com
Lexus - www.lexus.com
Nissan - www.nissanusa.com
General Motors - www.gm.com
Ford - www.ford.com
Maserati - www.maserati.com
Nissan GT-R R35 - www.gtrnissan.com
France Télévisions - www.francetelevisions.fr
Rediff - www.rediff.com
Voice of America - www.voanews.com
New York Post - www.nypost.com
CNBC - www.cnbc.com
MTV - www.mtv.com
NBC - www.nbc.com
WWE - www.wwe.com
NASA - www.nasa.gov
MIT OpenCourseWare - ocw.mit.edu
Swiss Info - www.swissinfo.org
Tektronix - www.tek.com
Analog Devices - www.analog.com
Tagged - www.tagged.com
Red Bull - www.redbull.com
InterContinental Hotels - www.ichotelsgroup.com
Monster - www.monster.com
Cirque du Soleil - www.cirquedusoleil.com
Chelsea - www.chelseafc.com
TiViMi - www.tivimi.fr
Culture Pub - www.culturepub.fr
PC Magazine - www.pcmag.com
Wired - www.wired.com
Best Buy - www.bestbuy.com
Daily Mail - www.dailymail.co.uk
The Sun - www.thesun.co.uk
The Mail on Sunday - www.mailonsunday.co.uk
Hulu - www.hulu.com
South Park Studios - www.southparkstudios.com
BollywoodHungama/IndiaFM - www.bollywoodhungama.com
Brothersoft - www.brothersoft.com
NYSE - www.nyse.com
CelebTV - www.celebtv.com
Boy Genius Report - www.boygeniusreport.com
HowStuffWorks - www.howstuffworks.com
TopGear.com USA - www.topgear.com/us
Pixar - www.pixar.com
Adidas - www.adidas.com
Coca Cola - www.coca-cola.com
Louis Vuitton - www.louisvuitton.com
L'Oreal - www.loreal.com
Gap - www.gap.com
Kioskea - en.kioskea.net
Akamai’s Full Customer List. Unfortunately, we'll be missing the big G with its vast YouTube content, Blogger blogs & other services that are only available at Mountain View.
& Rapidshare as well! :P
Update: Cahri.com/blog - Akamai à Maurice: à quand le tour de la Réunion?
Google as well have launched their own cache servers in Mauritius, powering sites like YouTube, Blogger, Google Maps, etc.