I think having a bill to impose penalties on contractors would only offer redress to the infrastructure owners and only treat the symptoms rather than the causes. If anything the buck should stop with authorities in charge of urban planning and not the contractor who, IMHO might be working in very unclear conditions or lacking guidance or a framework. Lets think back to the demolition (and wastage) of Nakumatt on Thika Road, the demolition of newly built units for the police near Moi Avenue, Syokimau, etc - none of those structures should have been put up in the first place. As long as these underlying planning issues are not sorted out, ICT development will continue to suffer. Conversely this is why Konza is a good idea - start a city from scratch - sewers, power lines, water, fibre, etc - with everything in its place and taking into account modern urban planning. Otherwise all we are doing is putting new wine in old wine skins. On 14 March 2012 12:53, James Mbugua <jgmbugua@gmail.com> wrote:
KDN, TELKOM KENYA, KPLC CABLE CUTS DOWN INTERNET IN KENYA
http://nairobitech.blogspot.com/2012/03/kdn-telkom-kenya-kplc-cable-cuts-dow...
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Francis Hook <francis.hook@gmail.com> wrote:
And I think we need more diversity and more redundancy on the terrestrial back bone - if two backhaul links between NBO and MSA go down, its probably worse than one submarine cable cut.
On 14 March 2012 12:28, Francis Hook <francis.hook@gmail.com> wrote:
Zuku, TKL and Airtel too were down and seem partially restored - word from Zuku is that a link between NBO and MSA was affected.
On 14 March 2012 10:52, Harry Delano <harry@comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:
Who has any idea what’s happening. The List is too silent, or are we affected
by the connectivity break-down…?
Seems Safaricom and Orange, are the only ones still standing on their feet as
per the last check..
Anyone..?
Harry
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