That's a hard sale, given that everyone knows that the only thing that can happen to a laid cable is a cut - now, or in the future. Thus "force majeure" can only be invoked when all redundancies have been exhausted. Since none of use wants to pay for redundant links, I propose the following. What CCK could do, is fix the price of bandwidth that has been routed on redundant fiber - to between 10 - 15% above normal rate - subject to availability, and for a limited time period. This is to say that, if one cable is cut, all traffic automatically transfers to an alternate route at less than 15% the bandwidth costs. I don't know how practical this can be, but, in addition to improving up-time for everyone at a low cost, we get to optimize use of the laid fiber, while incentivizing coopetition between the network/bandwidth providers. --- On Tue, 2/28/12, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com> wrote: From: Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@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, 4:39 AM I wonder whether it can be argued that this incident could be accounted as "force majeure" which can be described using the following elements: Externality: The defendant must have nothing to do with the event's happening. Unpredictability: If the event could be foreseen, the defendant is obligated to have prepared for it.[4] Being unprepared for a foreseeable event leaves the defendant culpable. This standard is very strictly applied Irresistibility: The consequences of the event must have been unpreventable. Best regards, Brian On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:21 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Areba, If CCK has not implemented a license plan that provides and meets stringent conditions for Telecommunication Operators to adhere to, and in the matter of emergencies and redundancies, we are at a complete loss. The current situation would show further why there in no need to have local domains that are now not reachable via external traffic. Not only will the local domain be high restricted but mostly unavailable for the next 3 weeks from external requests.
Rgds. :-)
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
im curious, @aki how would you have wanted them respond to this?
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