[92398] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Dambier)
Tue Sep 19 03:40:26 2006
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:39:34 +0200
From: Peter Dambier <peter@peter-dambier.de>
Reply-To: peter@peter-dambier.de
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0609182357160.32170-100000@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Gadi Evron wrote:
> 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.
http://www.itu.int/africainternet2000/countryreports/zwe_e.htm
http://www.comone.co.zw/
http://www.telone.co.zw
% Information related to '194.133.122.0 - 194.133.122.255'
inetnum: 194.133.122.0 - 194.133.122.255
netname: TelOne-BLK01
descr: TelOne (formerly ZPTC)
country: ZW
The nameservers and internet sites can be seen here (europe)
but they are slow.
Kind regards
Peter and Karin
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