Even in pre-fiber days the small providers had international capacities greater than 50mbps. Even as we stand currently, this small providers are still buying capacities from the local carrier networks eg KDN and Safcom who have become provider of providers. With this setup, those with the STM1 are only a few who are already filling up the STM1s anyway with traffic from the smaller ISPs.
Trust me, if providers had the excess capacities being talked about in this article, every customer currently would be having a ball. No provider would be willing to have idle 125mbps 'sitting' idle. There could be other dynamics affecting pricing but idle capacity is not one of them.
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From: Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Are there any issues affecting Fiber optic cables?
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:20:38 +0300
Alex,
Please demystify for us. What is inaccurate? And what is the correct state of affairs?
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Alex Nderitu <nderitualex@gmail.com> wrote:
That article is not well researched!
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The EastAfrican has established that the providers are swamped with excess capacity after signing 25-year contracts for the biggest bandwidth tiers of 155mbps -- which, according to those in the know, is unlikely to be used within the contract period. Indeed, all that the providers are likely to sell is about 30mbps, but someone has to pay for the surplus -- inevitably, this will be the consumer
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This is out of ignorance.
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