
If I may add to the discussion. My view : I think the article in BD is what has set things in motion so Alex may not have been able to bring up the issues earlier with Hon Ndemo. Teams seems like a twisted affair, I just found out today that each investor in teams goes their own way to get bandwidth from various cable providers who terminate in Fujairah. So where does GOK get its bandwidth from, Etisalat? There are more than 3 cable companies Seame We 3/4, Reliance and Etisalat. Seame We 3 goes upto UK while Seame We 4 goes to France. Reliance is Mumbai and France. This is the strange part of Teams : - Why pull a cable all the way from Mombasa to Fujiarah, which is really a half circuit? - Since the half circuit is kenyan, who maintains the cable and who bears the costs of breakages and repair? If 20% of Tax payer money went to fund it, build it and maintain it for eg 20 years yet the distribution of the 20% share capacity into public networks will not happen unless Govt IT section becomes an ISP. So now there are 4-5 different IRUs on the same cable. Each IRU share holder on kenyan route has paid money in advance and will not drop rates any time soon until they get some returns. So who excatly was Teams benefitting? Service Providers who wanted a competitive route to Seacom and partly funded by Tax payers? This is all confusing.... Solution : We wait to learn more about it and see how Teams is going to benefit kenyans. My amatuer views.....