[92444] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Wed Sep 20 20:11:16 2006
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:07:42 -1000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
----- Original Message Follows -----
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
> > > Does any fiber run into Zimbabwe? Or is everything via
> > satellite?
> Remember the (proposed? built?) circum-Africa oceanic
> cable, with drops to each (coastal) country? Avoid the
> politics and instability of depending on a neighbor.
Perhaps you mean the SAT-3 and the EASSy mess?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EASSY
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT-3
scott
