There was a more recent plan to extend the Fibre that Ethiopia has access to all the way to Kenya Border, and Uganda was to feed off the fibre via the border links to Kenyan telcos
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wire James Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:08 PM To: Linux Users Group Uganda Subject: Re: [BULK] [LUG] severed cables disrupt internet I know of some plans o extend fibre through Sudan. Currently the one from Khartoum reaches a town about 400Km north of Juba with a name that starts with Ma.... I understand when southern sudan settles, the link will extend to West Nile. Lets hope for the best. Wire On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 14:59 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fiber From the red sea that is, so east africa will have an alternative route to submarine fibre. Prior to the kenyan crisis, there was a lead time of 6 months on this project. May be now its never :-( Powered By MTN Uganda's Blackberry! ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri Feb 01 14:27:01 2008 Subject: Re: [BULK] [LUG] severed cables disrupt internet Have you guys heard abt the initiative of running the fibre overland thru ethiopia to kenya border? Rgds JB ------Original Message------ From: McTim To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Users Group Uganda ReplyTo: Linux Users Group Uganda Sent: Feb 1, 2008 7:18 AM Subject: Re: [BULK] [LUG] severed cables disrupt internet On Feb 1, 2008 5:19 AM, Mark Tinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2008, Noah K Sematimba wrote: > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7218008.stm > > With fibre now coming to the East African region, diversity > will be critical for all interested in taking up bandwidth. I think the operative part of the above sentence is "now coming", which has been the status for the last 3+ years. EA needs to complete the EA backhaul while TEAMS.SEACOM/EASSY/FLAG et. al, get theirs done (or not). I saw this http://www.meoltd.com/site/en/about.html the other day, I wonder if they have the cash to back up their ambitions!? -- Cheers, McTim $ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. --------------------------------------- Powered By MTN Uganda's Blackberry! _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
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