Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment

["Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>]

Does any fiber run into Zimbabwe? Or is everything via satellite? There has
to be a remaining uplink (albeit low-capacity) if nameservers within the
country are still accessible.

-brandon

On 9/19/06, Peter Dambier <peter () peter-dambier de> wrote:
> Gadi Evron wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Intelsat has shutdown the primary satellite link for Zimbabwe's state
> >>communications company for non-payment, which has affected most of the
> >>ISPs in the country.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I can't really blame them. I doubt the Internet is considered critical
> > infrastructure over there yet, and I doubt Intelsat would care... but
> this
> > is interesting in the sense that even if you can't fault intelsat in any
> > way... Intelsat, Inmarsat, etc. run quite a bit, and if it's a
> > "country" that gets disconnected, that is a problem even if it's not
> > "their" problem.
> >
> >       Gadi.
>
> http://www.itu.int/africainternet2000/countryreports/zwe_e.htm
>
> http://www.comone.co.zw/
> http://www.telone.co.zw
>
> % Information related to '194.133.122.0 - 194.133.122.255'
>
> inetnum:        194.133.122.0 - 194.133.122.255
> netname:        TelOne-BLK01
> descr:          TelOne (formerly ZPTC)
> country:        ZW
>
> The nameservers and internet sites can be seen here (europe)
> but they are slow.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Peter and Karin
>
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