On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:00:36AM -0500, Gadi Evron wrote:
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Sean Donelan wrote:
Intelsat has shutdown the primary satellite link for Zimbabwe's state communications company for non-payment, which has affected most of the ISPs in the country.
I can't really blame them. I doubt the Internet is considered critical infrastructure over there yet,
i guess that would depend on who you are, i'm sure a number of aid organizations and other NGO's are quite dependent on the internet.
and I doubt Intelsat would care... but this is interesting in the sense that even if you can't fault intelsat in any way... Intelsat, Inmarsat, etc. run quite a bit, and if it's a "country" that gets disconnected, that is a problem even if it's not "their" problem.
i would imagine that this was a last option for intelsat, as they have been the backbone for many places, especially those away from western infrastucture for a long time. "The state company TelOne acknowledged receiving a final demand for payment of its satellite arrears last month and asked the central bank to provide hard currency which has so far not been allocated." -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +971 50 436-3874 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying. ]