End to Computer Illiteracy?

http://www.betanews.com/article/UN_Throws_Weight_Behind
_100_Laptop/1138305503

This offers an amazing opportunity for third world countries to give the masses access to cheap, rugged devices that can give them access to the rest of the world through the internet. This will help provide opportunity to many who are now able to join a global network to share their ideas and problems.

However, the method that the people will get on the internet will be slow, overcrowded and few and far between. The money that was spent building these laptops will be useless without a cheap, reliable and widespread infrastructure which third world countries lack. Currently, internet costs $24 to $50 a month, far beyond the price range of the majority of the working people. Should we really spend aid money on computers when the quality of life, and essential services such as running water and affordable housing are unavailable to most people?