[kictanet] TEAMS | EASSY Fibre Cables Cut? SEACOM | LION?

[Dennis Kioko]

LION is a cable meant to connect the Oceanic Islands to the Internet,
through the cables at Mombasa. I doubt if it has onward connectivity (this
is according to the Orange CEO in an interview done for the March issue of
CIO East Africa Magazine)

On 26 February 2012 19:28, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:

> Apparently a ship (we have details) illegally anchored on the channel
> through which the cables pass and cut both.  The ports authority have the
> undersea route but we do not know how they made such a mistake.  Teams
> will be up in 7 days.
>
> Lion landed in a different location to mitigate against such problems.  I
> do not know if Seacom is operational.
>
>
> Ndemo.
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