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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