[92400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Tue Sep 19 04:11:25 2006
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:06:13 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0609182357160.32170-100000@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:00:36AM -0500, 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,
i guess that would depend on who you are, i'm sure a number of aid
organizations and other NGO's are quite dependent on the internet.
> 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.
i would imagine that this was a last option for intelsat, as they have been
the backbone for many places, especially those away from western infrastucture
for a long time.
"The state company TelOne acknowledged receiving a final demand for payment of
its satellite arrears last month and asked the central bank to provide hard
currency which has so far not been allocated."
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