[kictanet] Cable issues

Sun Nov 8 17:52:55 EAT 2009

Evans,

The good news is that we dont have to forget competition, patriotism and
competition can live togther without any troubles.

The situation here is a lack of planning and lay down procedures. For
example, if Telkom Kenya has laid her fiber on the right side of the
kenyatta highway, maybe one or two other cables would go in the same duct.
For redundancy purposes, KDNs cable would be on the left side of the road
with ducting that allows other operators to also blow that cable.

A third form of redundancy and competition is for Wananchi to lay their
cable on a third road network which runs parallel so you have multiple
redundancies which are effectively competing - this requires planning and
lay down procedures which is the job of government.

Eric here

> If we were to forget competition and be true patriots, we would ask
> ourselves how much it costs the users for the lost business, think of a
> crucial call that cannot go through because of a cable cut, think of
> hotlines et al?
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> Users can however help us identify the culprits, always see who is first
> to knock your doors when you have a downtime as a result of cable cut?
> Does it tell you anything, how did they know, if you listen carefully to
> the sales pitch, you will be promised a more stable service and at that
> time you will definitely sign up because of frustration with your
> otherwise helpless provider whose service is "unreliable".
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> By the way cable vandalism happens even in the most developed world
> "vandals slash silicon valley fiber optic " sabotage happens in Kenya.
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> Be part of mulika "mwizi" if we are to get rid of this retrogressive
> behavior that is a big threat to the growth of the ICT industry and the
> economy at large.
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> Evans
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> From: kictanet-bounces+ejnyagah=telkom.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+ejnyagah=telkom.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
> Behalf Of kai wulff
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 10:17 PM
> To: Evans J. Nyagah
> Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Cable issues
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> Sabotage and Vandalism look very similar .. Unless we ask the people
> doing it we would not know the motives.
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> The fault on Monday was caused by contractors of another operator who
> was not following procedures and who thought that by virtue of working
> for a partly state owned company he will be allowed to do what he wants
> (happens very often, treatment of Operators is still not equal).
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> Today was clearly a fault caused by someone who ON PURPOSE cut the
> cable.
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> Did the person want to steal a cable and stopped when seeing it was not
> metal or was he there to sabotage the network - I would not know.
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> Kai
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> Von: kictanet-bounces+kai.wulff=kdn.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+kai.wulff=kdn.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] Im
> Auftrag von Jevans Nyabiage
> Gesendet: Friday, November 06, 2009 19:07
> An: kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> Betreff: [kictanet] Cable issues
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> In the last few weeks there has been an outcry over increasing in
> disruption of networks with some of the affected firms pointing to
> industrial sabotage.
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> Safaricom was the first this week to claim "acts of sabotage" on the
> disruption of its network. The Orange the next day arrested some cable
> vandals and attributed it to suspected sabotage.
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> This Friday (today) Seacom fibre cable went offline for about four
> hours, they said this was due to cuts on KDN fibre around Voi.
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> Is this 'sabotage' real or imagined?
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