[133993] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Dec 21 10:02:24 2010
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:01:00 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Heinrich Strauss <nanog@hstrauss.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <4D108826.6090803@hstrauss.co.za>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/21/2010 4:57 AM, Heinrich Strauss wrote:
> Although I realise that, the problem in South Africa is that we
> essentially still have a Telecoms Monopoly: The local loop belongs to
> Telkom SA who also competes with ISPs in providing Internet access to
> clients, so growth in the ISP sector is stunted. There are only really a
> handful of other NSPs who service ISPs and those ISPs still have no
> access to the networking segment from Datacenter to DSLAM.
There was always similar issues in .ZW as well (when it was marginally
more stable).
Jack
