[92602] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zimbabwe satellite Internet link restored
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Thu Sep 28 04:59:34 2006
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:58:42 +0100
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0609280302070.5673@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I'm a little surprised they came back up. I can certainly see the
benefit for the regime to have - unavoidably, no money! - no Internet
for the public (whilst they no doubt have private
bgan/thuraya/whatever).
On 9/28/06, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
>
> Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank authorized release of TelOne's, the state
> communications operator, payment of satellite charges to Intelsat in
> foreign currency. Intelsat restored its satellite link, which was
> the primary Internet connection for most ISPs in Zimbabwe.
>
> To raise hard currency, TelOne is trying to get diplomatic missions and
> ISPs to pay in foreign currency for Internet service.
>
>
