MTN is at Malaba on fibre S e n t f r o m m y B l a c k B e r r y ® s m a r t p h o n e
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Gipman <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:28:08 To: <[email protected]>; Linux Users Group Uganda<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LUG] Uganda's National Backbone Project Yup MTN said no to that one i believe and started digging their own fiber towards KE. That stopped tough after Jinjja due to forever road construction and many fiber cuts. Don't know the current state so perhaps it budgeted again. On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 17:57 +0200, Hari Kurup wrote: > On 9/29/09 10:49 AM, Wire James wrote:- > > Herbert > > > > The grapevine has it that Warid approached the MoICT with a request to > > use the National Backbone for capacity. After 8 months of waiting for a > > response and getting noe from the ministry, they decided to start > > digging their own. See how people in Govt aren't business minded? > > Reminds me of the UETCL official who 4 years ago when asked why they > > were not leasing out capacity on their fibre, the chap responded by > > saying that UETCL doesn't need to put other people on the fibre that > > they have laid on their power lines. He stated how it was for them > > exclusively. A few months back, I saw an advert where they were inviting > > companies to help them commercialise that data capacity. I wonder what > > he has to say now. > > UETCL has always wanted to lease their fibre from 5 years ago. Except > that they asked for way too much money. IIRC, they quoted $20,000 per > month to Infocom. I don't know what it is now. > > -- > Hari > _______________________________________________ > 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. > --------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ 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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