Majority of the customers are in Kenya, the logic of keeping traffic local as Phares has explained makes sense. Regards On 4/21/15, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
I think the broader issue here is Safaricom is a Kenyan company - based in Kenya. And the servers were in the UK. That is what all this is about.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:28 AM, simiyu mse via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Is this to say the system is not being future proofed with the intent to go global, since in this case the physical location of said servers should not be an issue.
When it comes to cost, i believe any internet traffic cost savings will be translated to the maintainance and running of the local tier 2 data centers set up for this infrastructure. Am sure they are running more than one for this.
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