----- Original Message Follows ----- From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>

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Does any fiber run into Zimbabwe? Or is everything via satellite?

Remember the (proposed? built?) circum-Africa oceanic cable, with drops to each (coastal) country? Avoid the politics and instability of depending on a neighbor.

Perhaps you mean the SAT-3 and the EASSy mess? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EASSY en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT-3 scott