It a shame when trunks have issues and " its just another day " feeling that comes from it. That's why the simplest of things like chipo and kuku ( micro-investments ) makes more sense then bigger, smarter entities. We are repeatedly proving innovation is based on old ideas, been there , done that kind of a thing but made to look better and it seems to work.  That will remain our destiny until we get some serious people who have a passion to change things around. I can tell you if I was director gen at cck, downtime penalty imposed on any operator would be nothing less than Kshs 1 million per day, no questions asked. Can you imagine what impression kampala or later kigali would have of kenya because they have to depend on the cable? Story sound similar to Nigeria and Benin.... Who cares since it seems no one can get it right. Yes faster internet, excellent. Innovation based around ip networks, forget it for a long time. kuku na chipo via sms ( dumb and useless protocol ) best innovation. Time to move on to higher up on the OSI layers and focus on things which are positively creative and don't depend on wish lists. My opinion....