It looks like we are just about to turn this discussion into whether Safaricom is good or not.If we do that,we will most definitely miss the point of it.My allegiance,and I believe that of Yawe,is NOT to Safaricom but to services that work.If Safaricom is the company giving these services at the moment,we will be happy to subscribe to their services! Yesterday when everyone was complaining about being offline ,the organisations using their services were up and running! Do they suffer outages?Of course they do!As somebody said ,they do not run equipment from heaven! The 'vandalism bill' is long overdue if you ask me and so is good network design from these service providers! Policies alone will not make companies great,their commitment to providing good services will. If a company is willing to invest billions in developing infrastructure but is not willing to spend a couple of millions in safeguarding the same,they have their priorities/policies wrong! N.B : This is not a paid post,just a post by a happy client. On 15 March 2012 11:33, Edwin Onchari <eonchari@lynxbits.com> wrote:
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Paid or not, Safaricom has not been an exception in this mess…my organization and several others in the BPO/ITES industry whose lion’s share of clients are foreign, will find it a an uphill task in the foreseeable future convincing our clients that we are a safe bet for their business. We had just overcome this issue when the fiber landed ( I remember endless meetings to explain why we had latencies of over 2-3000ms just a couple of years ago), and now this!. The vandalism bill is long overdue and should be enacted asap among other measures to sort this out once and for all.****
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*From:* kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke[mailto: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf Of *robert yawe *Sent:* Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:26 AM *To:* Edwin
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Safaricom is up and running with a few expected hiccups, why don't we just ask them how they have been able to keep their clients operational even with the cutting of all fibre cables.****
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Redundancy is a cost and needs to be met by someone, so Eric the question should be "how much redundancy are you willing to pay for?"****
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Why hasn't anyone asked where exactly is this point where all the cables from Nairobi to Mombasa converge? The Teams & EASSy cables where cut by an anchor because they run parallel and next to each other, assuming they are not one and the same cable.****
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PS. Just incase my intentions are misunderstood I would like to make it clear that this is not a paid post but even if it was would I really confirm it, hmmmm.****
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*From:* Eric M.K Osiakwan <emko@internetresearch.com.gh> *To:* robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> *Sent:* Wednesday, 14 March 2012, 18:31 *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] ISP Mayhem****
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......i would be slow to make this a public policy challenge and rather beg the question, "what happened to redundancy in network planning?"****
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On 14 Mar 2012, at 10:00, Harry Delano wrote:****
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Many thanks, all..
Looks we all crippled now.., right..? Time to consider some of this infrastructure as strategic to National security..
Bw. PS...?
Harry
-----Original Message----- From: Francis Hook [mailto:francis.hook@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:31 PM To: harry@comtelsys.co.ke Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] ISP Mayhem
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:
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On 14 March 2012 10:52, Harry Delano <harry@comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:****
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Who has any idea what’s happening. The List is too silent, or are we****
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Seems Safaricom and Orange, are the only ones still standing on their****
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