[92397] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Tue Sep 19 01:01:45 2006
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0609181839050.28677@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>
> Intelsat has shutdown the primary satellite link for Zimbabwe's state
> communications company for non-payment, which has affected most of the
> ISPs in the country.
>
I can't really blame them. I doubt the Internet is considered critical
infrastructure over there yet, and I doubt Intelsat would care... but this
is interesting in the sense that even if you can't fault intelsat in any
way... Intelsat, Inmarsat, etc. run quite a bit, and if it's a
"country" that gets disconnected, that is a problem even if it's not
"their" problem.
Gadi.
