[kictanet] Zain Blackout

[waudo siganga]

Maybe this was a generalised problem. Yesterday I had no service from
Wananchi most of the day, upto about 4pm. Today I also had no service
all morning.
Waudo

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:40 +0300, "Gichuki John Chuksjonia"
<chuksjonia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think even safcom decided to go down today, couldn't even reach
> their DNSs servers. Anyone confirmed where these problems came from.
> 
> On 10/13/09, Benson Mbugua <mbugz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Yesterday I was not able to go online with my zain post paid modem. After a
> > call to the  customer service I was notified that their systems were down.
> > If my memory serves me right, when jambonet was the only internet
> > backbone/provider in the country, they were fined a huge sum of money for a
> > similar incident. Is there any provision or consumer protection that could
> > liase with Zain to credit users for the loss of service for a whole day or
> > at least put a red flag for such an oversight.
> > Ben
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: John Kariuki <ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk>
> > To: mbugz at yahoo.com
> > Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> > Sent: Sat, October 10, 2009 8:45:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] Call Drops & Regulatory Action
> >
> >
> > Eric,
> > Call drop is a measurable parameter which is one item in a broad array of
> > measurements in what are often called "QUALITY OF SERVICE" in
> > telecommunications.KCA 1998 has a provision on quality of service and
> > consequently is of regulatory interest in accordance with the law.
> >
> > Just my  opinion
> >
> > Eng.J.N.Kariuki
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 10/10/09, Eric Aligula <jairah at KIPPRA.OR.KE> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>From: Eric Aligula <jairah at KIPPRA.OR.KE>
> >>Subject: [kictanet] Call Drops & Regulatory Action
> >>To: ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk
> >>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> >>Date: Saturday, 10 October, 2009, 9:47 AM
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >>Dear All:
> >>
> >>I am looking for any information / studies out there in respect of call
> >> drops and regulatory action.  Specifically I am looking for information on
> >> any studies measuring the economic impact of call drops and regulatory
> >> action to  deal with the same.
> >>
> >>Look forward to your feedback.
> >>
> >>Kind regards
> >>
> >>Eric Aligula Magolo, PhD
> >>Senior Analyst
> >>Infrastructure and Economic Services Division
> >>Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)
> >>P.O. Box 56445, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya
> >>Telephone:       +254-20-2719933/4
> >>Fax:                +254-20-2719951
> >>E-mail:            jairah at kippra.or.ke
> >>URL:              www.kippra.org
> >>
> >>
> >>Proudly Kenyan
> >>“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted
> >> the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not
> >> shrink from this responsibility……….I welcome it.”
> >>John F. Kennedy
> >>"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
> >>Edmund Burke
> >>"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
> >> checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who
> >> neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight
> >> that knows not victory, nor defeat."
> >>Theodore Roosevelt
> >>"Ex Africa semper aliquid novi"
> >>
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