Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool.

On 12/21/2010 4:57 AM, Heinrich Strauss wrote:

Although I realise that, the problem in South Africa is that we essentially still have a Telecoms Monopoly: The local loop belongs to Telkom SA who also competes with ISPs in providing Internet access to clients, so growth in the ISP sector is stunted. There are only really a handful of other NSPs who service ISPs and those ISPs still have no access to the networking segment from Datacenter to DSLAM.

There was always similar issues in .ZW as well (when it was marginally more stable). Jack