[kictanet] ISP Mayhem

[Francis Hook]

I think having a bill to impose penalties on contractors would only
offer redress to the infrastructure owners and only treat the symptoms
rather than the causes.   If anything the buck should stop with
authorities in charge of urban planning and not the contractor who,
IMHO might be working in very unclear conditions or lacking guidance
or a framework.

Lets think back to the demolition (and wastage) of Nakumatt on Thika
Road, the demolition of newly built units for the police near Moi
Avenue, Syokimau, etc - none of those structures should have been put
up in the first place.

As long as these underlying planning issues are not sorted out, ICT
development will continue to suffer. Conversely this is why Konza is a
good idea - start a city from scratch - sewers, power lines, water,
fibre, etc - with everything in its place and taking into account
modern urban planning.  Otherwise all we are doing is putting new wine
in old wine skins.




On 14 March 2012 12:53, James Mbugua <jgmbugua at gmail.com> wrote:
> KDN, TELKOM KENYA, KPLC CABLE CUTS DOWN INTERNET IN KENYA
>
> http://nairobitech.blogspot.com/2012/03/kdn-telkom-kenya-kplc-cable-cuts-down.html
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Francis Hook <francis.hook at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And I think we need more diversity and more redundancy on the
>> terrestrial back bone - if two backhaul links between NBO and MSA go
>> down, its probably worse than one submarine cable cut.
>>
>>
>> On 14 March 2012 12:28, Francis Hook <francis.hook at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Zuku, TKL and Airtel too were down and seem partially restored  - word
>>> from Zuku is that a link between NBO and MSA was affected.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 March 2012 10:52, Harry Delano <harry at comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Who has any idea what’s happening. The List is too silent, or are we
>>>> affected
>>>>
>>>> by the connectivity break-down…?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Seems Safaricom and Orange, are the only ones still standing on their feet
>>>> as
>>>>
>>>> per the last check..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyone..?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Harry
>>>>
>>>>
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