@Aki,
I cannot agree more. Network operators have taken Kenyans for a major ride for a long long time. I remember paying 170K / month for a shared 1.5 mbps "internet" connection in 2008, when 99.95% of my traffic went from the ISP to Safaricom and back!

I used to be sympathetic, but I'm starting to to agree with someone who said that they're just being mediocre.

Perhaps it's not the networking guys alone. Look at the KCPE results SMS query joke. People have 1 full year (actually several years) to design & build a simple system for that one day, and they fail miserably.... THEN they're given the same job the following year!

The infrastructure is there. It's the nefarious incentive system - that govt could go a long way in deconstructing.

--- On Tue, 2/28/12, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:

From: aki <aki275@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Undersea cable cut now confirms one thing : ICT Infrastructure Vision 2030 could just be a farce....
To: "Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 3:34 AM

@Bernard, imo, Telecomunication Sector is trying to downplay the outage as an "an act of god" without acting responsibly knowing fully well that such an outcome would have happened in cable cuts. There is a strong case for it not being "an outage beyond our control" simply because the nature of telecommunications sector demands redundancies. This is NOT a business choice to made by the business owners in the sector, it is the requirements of doing business in the Telecommunications Sector.

@Stephen, I read the article in the paper not online. P24.

Rgds.:-)

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