Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:23:17 -0400, Joe Abley <jabley () ca afilias info>
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