I think people were expecting that cable to even bring yoghurt. There's always a 'next big thing that will revolutionize communications', - cheap dialup, leased lines, VSAT, 3G and now seacom. The fine print and implementation details always get lost in the hype. The proof of the pie is always in the eating. Personally nitaamini nikiona On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Riyaz Bachani<riyaz.bachani@ke.wananchi.com> wrote:
Aki,
I'm told you should try Safaricom for your fiber cravings :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "aki" <aki275@googlemail.com> To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 7:35:20 AM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Benchmarking Seacom
@ Hi David and all, I appreciate all the comments and with all due kind respect to everyone, I'm sorry to tell you that I see things much more differently. The issue of speeds, latencies, jitter, bandwidth etc is irrelevant, that comes with the fiber naturally. What I see is a terrible failure on our part. What I'm surprised though is that we accept this failure as a norm and for people who are understand networks etc to see other professionals accept the norm is terribly disturbing. However, what we should be asking ourselves is this " What did we NOT expect? ". For whatever reasons that entire community of telcos, network operators , service providers choose not to go simulatenous with the launch is upto them.
For me, the writing is on the wall, clear.
" DAY 2 of international fiber launch and 99% of kenya is still in the dark ages of the satellite era! " An excellent start and with plenty of excuses to back it up.
Anway, Im on a timeout so will leave it there...................................
Best Rgds,
Aki.