Africa's EASSY debate resolved, project moves ahead

not exactly clear from that just how the open access debate was resolved

given the SAT3 experience it is kind of crucial
 
AARGH!!,

More BS being sold. Give the ISP's access for fck sakes!
 
Yes, I am actually scared to ask what they have decided on but am anyway.
Is this decision / agreement going to be as big a secret as the SAT-3 one or are they going to spill the beans to the press anytime soon on how this is all going to be structured?
 
Nepad and non-governmental organisations that took a leading role in securing $150m in grants for the project, however, insisted that fibre-optic capacity be offered to ISPs and other non-member telecom operators for free, and that service providers without gateway licences should also be allowed to use the infrastructure.

The disagreement has been put to rest, with all project members promising to work together to ensure the success of the continental project seen as a remedy to Africa's high telecommunication costs, according to Kirui.
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I read this as: Because Nepad and the NGO's have such a major portion of the CAPEX, they have managed to get their way with allowing the "open access" format whereby anyone wanting to gain access, may.
 
Thus far...go go go...

Out of interest, anyone have an idea of how big this cable is (thickness) and what capacity it can hold...? Is it fully fibre optic only or what?
 
mavx said:
I read this as: Because Nepad and the NGO's have such a major portion of the CAPEX, they have managed to get their way with allowing the "open access" format whereby anyone wanting to gain access, may.
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I hope you are right mavx, or is there going to be another 'at the death clarification' from Ivy?

* crosses fingers, pockets rabbits foot, coin of Apollo, lucky leprechaun and thinks of lucky no.7 *
 
Agreed, I just managed to get over a recent bout of Ivy sickness, was terrible :p ! I think the actual agreement over the access and control of the project or cable would make a very interesting read. At this stage I doubt it would be public but it would be in our own interests to make itas public as possible as soon as possible.
 
And the sickening irony of this whole EASSY project is that we in SA don't technically 'need' the extra bandwidth. Telkom still has many Gbps they are not even using on SAT3.

But of course i know we NEED this cable and it must be an 'anyone can buy access' project so i'm glad it seems that is the case.
 
dominic said:
not exactly clear from that just how the open access debate was resolved given the SAT3 experience it is kind of crucial
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Yeah, was wondering myself what they said to keep them incumbents happy. They never mention how it was resolved. :confused:
 
rooijan said:
The strange thing is that all the contact emails end in @telkom.co.za! The postal address reads c/o Telkom SA!
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Yes considering that they claim Saix and Telkom are separate entities.
Another bit of trivia, they apparently also have the same vat no. ;)
 
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