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Rank: Veteran Joined: 6/2/2010 Posts: 1,091
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http://www.businessdaily.../-/rledxmz/-/index.html
I am all for competition but when players resort to such dirty tricks, we are all losers.
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Rank: Chief Joined: 1/3/2007 Posts: 18,371 Location: Nairobi
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I also read a lot of whining... The phenomenon of 'jamaas have been paid kumaliza mimi'... Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/31/2007 Posts: 341
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@VVS, these cable cuts are real, nobody's whining.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/15/2006 Posts: 3,907
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10m fine, life imprisonment, loss of license...
So the guys have been hacking the main fibre and redundant link - hard working crooks.
With government upping the ante, the going rate paid by guy sponsoring has to be at least above 10m per effective cut...
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 5/18/2008 Posts: 796
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Sky5... I would go with 1, 3 and 4..
Where are you going to sell fibre?
The construction cuts are understandable though certainly not excusable. Surely there should be a process in place to locate existing infrastructure before one goes digging...
4 is certainly likely.. you contract two vendors to lay cables (for redundancy) then they lay them in the same trench NKT..
Hiyo ya sabotage ni wazimu.. hata mimi I say we come up with the laws that Boston came up with... "economic sabotage"... 10 years minimum
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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muganda wrote:10m fine, life imprisonment, loss of license...
So the guys have been hacking the main fibre and redundant link - hard working crooks.
With government upping the ante, the going rate paid by guy sponsoring has to be at least above 10m per effective cut...
Hammers. Mosquitoes. He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/15/2006 Posts: 3,907
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Are these alleged fibre hackers?
Three Suspects; John Karanja Muiya, John Mwangi Mutura and Joseph Ngige Wanyoike arraigned in a Nairobi Court, on charges related to the recent cable cuts on the Safaricom Network. The three face two counts; Preparing to commit a felony(crime) and tampering with telecommunication equipment
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/31/2007 Posts: 341
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Yet another fibre cut targeting safaricom. Nothing seems to be going for these guys of late. Sabotage?
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/22/2011 Posts: 322 Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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I'm sure that there is some industrial espionage going on here- the telecom war is raging, but still, SafCom needs to wise up a bit. They should have run Ericsson MINI-LINK Microwave transmission towers from Mombasa to Nairobi and even Dar first and foremost, then Formed a 4G/Wimax "transmission net" from the Microwave relays to businesses, smaller cities, and homes. That way, you have high bandwidth through the air as a load-balancer, fiber as a primary, and satellite as an on-demand, last ditch backup. Hang some solar panels and batteries from the towers, pay some local guys to keep an eye on them, and you have a really nice self-contained system.
They have already spent the cost of microwave in cut cables. Even here in the US cables get cut and stolen all the time- copper more than fiber, but the microwave is in the air, and they don't go telling everyone where and what they are burying. Sometimes it is under railroad tracks, sometimes under landfills.
Fiber is the fastest, but microwave is now very, very fast, and it's better than connection loss. Same with AccessKenya. I understand the need to lay a nice metro fiber ring, but, look at the obvious- mobile phones grew far faster than landline phones in Kenya. Approach internet the same way. Then, when the demand is there, and the telecom war is over, light up the fiber.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 4/9/2008 Posts: 2,824
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All these providers are stupid!! gvt is even more stupid. If they had put their acts together this would not be happening. But they decided to compete even in laying infrastructure, each stupid provider incurring similar cost as the competitor had incurred a while ago in trench digging and other un-professional civil works..results...trenches everywhere, some not well marked....and cables you can even step on after a small runoff created by a little shower....walk up most of the roads heading out of town and you will see so many of those cables exposed, especially where there is a tarmacked driveway ...the guys simply passed the cables through the caravats (sp)...now who cannot cut that with good instructions?? they are to blame gvt....could have provided a pathway (network of conduits) around the country .....just as it is done in buildings...managed by one authority. If you want to lay fibre, the pathway is opened, you lay your fibre and is closed again and security provided, except for places that are not common to all. Then you are charged for the service.....sio kuchimba kila mahali like moles!! When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
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