[92604] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zimbabwe satellite Internet link restored
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Sep 28 09:25:27 2006
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:24:30 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a2b2d0480609280158s3998f412r9451f136fbedf2ce@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:58:42AM +0100, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
>
> 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).
Or it could be a sign that the internet is sufficently valuable
to the government that they must restore the link. Some may be a bit
suspicious of the internet being that critical, but it just may be the case.
- Jared
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