Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment
Steven M. Bellovin
smb at cs.columbia.edu
Tue Sep 19 14:54:40 UTC 2006
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:23:17 -0400, Joe Abley <jabley at ca.afilias.info>
wrote:
>
>
> On 2006-09-19, at 03:59, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
>
> > Does any fiber run into Zimbabwe? Or is everything via satellite?
>
> Having fibre to your neighbiour is the exception in Africa, not the
> rule.
>
Remember the (proposed? built?) circum-Africa oceanic cable, with drops to
each (coastal) country? Avoid the politics and instability of depending
on a neighbor.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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