On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:35 AM, aki
<aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
@ 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...................................
Aki,
I totally support you.
If it were not for the high speeds (4get the costs for now) then what was the hype all about? Why the hell were people tweeting so much about it?
Every user out there wants to know when the latencies will go down and I can tell for sure, because yesterday I was tasked to ask KDN when they are switching from Satellite to Fiber, given that the cable is terminated at their premises.
Why is it that everyone who was hyped about the Fiber all of a sudden wants to play down the lighting of the Seacom, or perhaps Seacom was just another "landing" (aka TEAMS), not the actual switching "ON"?