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Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool.


From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:01:00 -0600

On 12/21/2010 4:57 AM, Heinrich Strauss wrote:
Although I realise that, the problem in South Africa is that we
essentially still have a Telecoms Monopoly: The local loop belongs to
Telkom SA who also competes with ISPs in providing Internet access to
clients, so growth in the ISP sector is stunted. There are only really a
handful of other NSPs who service ISPs and those ISPs still have no
access to the networking segment from Datacenter to DSLAM.

There was always similar issues in .ZW as well (when it was marginally more stable).


Jack


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