[114713] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Global pricing disparity -> Somali piracy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Lyon)
Fri May 22 16:01:06 2009
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Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:00:20 -0400
From: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
To: Martin Hannigan <martin@theicelandguy.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I can only imagine that costs are indeed affected. Companies
requesting combatant ship escorts are required to reimburse the
escorting nation.
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On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Martin Hannigan
<martin@theicelandguy.com> wrote:
> FYI, I thought this was interesting reading for the workaholics among us =
as
> we head into the holiday weekend in the United States. I'd also like to
> follow it with an (hopefully) interesting question.
>
>
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090520_bandwidth_buyers_price_differences=
_global_market/
>
> The costs of wholesale bandwidth are significantly disparate by region, d=
uh,
> but this article demonstrates how disparate.
>
> I was also recently discussing why some of these costs are disparate with=
a
> colleague in the African region and he had an interesting question that I
> thought would be operational enough to ask here.
>
> Are any African or Middle East costs being influenced by the Somali pirac=
y
> problem? Is the deployment of Eassy being impacted by the piracy issue? T=
he
> cable ships are sitting ducks for pirate attacks during lay and repair
> operations. There's one cable lay operation being guarded by the French
> Navy, likely an Alcatel operation.
>
> I'm interested to hear from anyone with direct knowledge (offline, I'll
> summarize back if it's worth it, maybe even a lightning talk for Philly?)=
on
> the impact. I suspect that it's possible that it could add cost to
> maintenance agreements with any security caveats, but since most cable
> operations taking place now were negotiated before the problem heightened=
,
> perhaps not. I'd like to know if you know.
>
> Best,
>
> Martin Hannigan
>
>
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