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Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Tue Sep 19 10:57:47 2006 
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:23:17 -0400, Joe Abley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 
> 
> On 2006-09-19, at 03:59, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > Does any fiber run into Zimbabwe? Or is everything via satellite?
> 
> Having fibre to your neighbiour is the exception in Africa, not the  
> rule.
> 
Remember the (proposed?  built?) circum-Africa oceanic cable, with drops to
each (coastal) country?  Avoid the politics and instability of depending
on a neighbor.


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb