dont forget: or the owners of cables are reluctant to offer good prices to competitors who dont own cables.
-- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Tuesday 06 July 2010 19:29:09 Simon Vass wrote: > Stephen > > TEAMs is and has been in use by several providers in town for some months. > The main problem is ISP are reluctant to purchase the same capacity on > both so they tend to to buy half on TEAMS and use SEACOM as their primary. > Orange do have TEAMS as their primary I believe which might explain their > stability. I also believe TEAMS is cheaper per Meg than SEACOM. So why > ISP's have not migrated on mass seems to be a mystery. Or perhaps their > worried as soon as they move providers TEAMs will also become unreliable? > Or contracts have been signed and have to wait for them to expire? > > > Richard perhaps you could enlighten us more from the inside ;-) > > Simon Vass > Technical Manager > E-Tech Uganda Ltd > http://www.etech.ug > Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 > Email: [email protected] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen S. Musoke" <[email protected]> > To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 6, 2010 6:41:25 PM GMT +03:00 Iraq > Subject: RE: [LUG] Seacom cable down > > > Looks like Seacom is totally unreliable, and we thought that the cable was > here. Is TEAMS a backup or its launch just for show? > > Stephen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Janosch Maier [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 4:50 PM > To: Linux Users Group Uganda > Subject: [LUG] Seacom cable down > > Hi guys, > > this could be interesting for some of you: > http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=20100706075 > 3 > dowjonesdjonline000184&title=seacom-cable-downfirm-seeking-options-to-rest > or e-service > > Regards Janosch > -- > Janosch Maier <[email protected]> -- http://phynformatik.de This > E-Mais is signed via GnuPG <http://gnupg.org/>. My public key: > 0xEB21B1DE > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > 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. --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > 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. --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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. ---------------------------------------
